Axminster aws10 tablesaw

[devonwoody]

Can anyone please give full instructions on how to tighten drive belt. or a link for such.

I suspect it might be beyond my capabilty these days!

Perhaps the Axminster forum member might respond?

 

[Myfordman]

Loosen the motor bolts and move the motor to tighten the belt ensuring the motor shaft remains parallel to the driven shaft. Tighten the bolts lightly and check that the longest belt run can be displaced by about half an inch only. Tighten the bolts fully. Mark the insides of the pulley with a permanent felt pen. Run the machine for a minute and then check the marking are equally removed on both side of the v. If the marks are not even then the shafts are not parallel and need correction. Running with misaligned shafts means belts will wear quickly and in some cases aluminium pulleys will also wear.

Hth

 

[devonwoody]

Thanks for advice above, my main concern is how to get at the motor, do I turn the table on end or get the castiron table off and turn that over?
Or perhaps the side panels are removed?

Things got so bad yesterday, attempting to rip a difficult 52mm thick piece of London Plane the timber would not pass the riving knife first time and only just pass the next on a metre length. I had to finish off on the bandsaw and that didn't like it. There are soft and hard sections running through the timber.

 

[devonwoody]

OK I think I have found it at the Axminster online manuals.

Remove top side panels, undo motor bolts and use adjusting bolt to extend motor.

Will have a go in week ahead.

 

[devonwoody]

Has anyone done this with an Axminster aws10 b ?

I still think the machine needs turning over and over to rest on table?

 

[monkeybiter]

I've got the 12" which is, I believe, just about the same. You should be able to reach everything you need just removing some panels. I changed the capacitor on my motor that way. If you did want to turn it over you would need a couple of chaps as it is very heavy.

 

[devonwoody]

Thanks I have had a look, I can see the capacitor and feel the two front bolts but to get at the two back ones means taking off the two cast iron side tables and a side panel and around 3 cu. of timber.

So I am relegating the TS to light duties at the present time and rip on the bandsaw.

 

[Myfordman]

If it is slipping that badly, the belt could need replacing. When they wear they become narrower and so slip deeper into the V and eventually bottom out and no amount of tightening will stop it slipping.

If the top surface of the belt is below the top of the V, then there is a good chance you need a new belt or set of belts - TS often have 2 or even 3 to transmit the power.

 

[monkeybiter]

If you look at the bottom half of p29
http://www.axminster.co.uk/media/downloads/501196_manual.pdf#page=29&zoom=auto,-103,379

you'll see photos of the belt tension adjuster.

Of course that doesn't help with digging your way in to access the relevant area, in that respect we are in the same boat.

 

[custard]

Mark the insides of the pulley with a permanent felt pen. Run the machine for a minute and then check the marking are equally removed on both side of the v. If the marks are not even then the shafts are not parallel and need correction. Running with misaligned shafts means belts will wear quickly and in some cases aluminium pulleys will also wear

If it is slipping that badly, the belt could need replacing. When they wear they become narrower and so slip deeper into the V and eventually bottom out and no amount of tightening will stop it slipping. If the top surface of the belt is below the top of the V, then there is a good chance you need a new belt or set of belts

I've learnt loads from this thread, I didn't know any of this!

 

[devonwoody]

If you look at the bottom half of p29
http://www.axminster.co.uk/media/downloads/501196_manual.pdf#page=29&zoom=auto,-103,379

you'll see photos of the belt tension adjuster.

Of course that doesn't help with digging your way in to access the relevant area, in that respect we are in the same boat.

My problem would be moving around 3 cu of hard wood, then take off two c.i. side tables and then one side panel (the other is already off so I could get a look in). Then I do not have much pull on spanners these days. I have some 2mtrs plus hard wood boards but they are usually cut down to 1 mtr. lengths and then ripped for my kind of woodwork. and I do have a bandsaw that can then take over to rip. So I don't know anyway out of my problem at the moment. All my neighbours are now around the same age with our usual age problems.

 

[monkeybiter]

I'd offer to help if I was closer. Maybe another forumite nearer to you?

 

[devonwoody]

That would be nice, perhaps I ought to have an open day? :lol: :lol: