Megaweasel
Established Member
Hi everyone
hoping someone can help me with a problem with the thickneser feed on my Record Power C26 universal. I’ve had it for many years without a lot of trouble but recently the feeder for the thickneser stopped working. The feed is a serrated roller, the spindle of which had a stack of little rubber washers which, when engaged, makes a friction contact with the edge of a 170mm diameter driving wheel. When I looked at it, all the little washers had split and disappeared leaving no friction surface to engage.
seemed a slightly odd solution to me (I’m no engineer) as I’d have had the friction surface on the wheel itself (Like a bandsaw wheel tire) but it worked for a good many years so I guess it was ok.
anyway, I got a load of rubber washers and replaced them which is a real pain as it means stripping the machine which requires removing the spindle motor and the saw and removing the top. Put it all back together and it lasted about an hour before they were all gone again. I tried again with neoprene washers - same thing. Then I tried some neoprene tubing a bit like hosepipe and that too was destroyed within a day.
the khives (tersa) are sharp and the bed clean. Really running out of ideas now and it’s frustrating as it takes about three hours to strip it and put back together and another couple to align everything.
so.. anyone got one of these or something similar who might have any suggestions? Record have no parts and we’re not interested when I contacted them. SCM (who made it) don’t seem to have parts for the minimax version. I’m thinking of trying a small bandsaw tire or a urethane-tired wheel in place of the driving wheel next.
any ideas would be greatfully received
chris
hoping someone can help me with a problem with the thickneser feed on my Record Power C26 universal. I’ve had it for many years without a lot of trouble but recently the feeder for the thickneser stopped working. The feed is a serrated roller, the spindle of which had a stack of little rubber washers which, when engaged, makes a friction contact with the edge of a 170mm diameter driving wheel. When I looked at it, all the little washers had split and disappeared leaving no friction surface to engage.
seemed a slightly odd solution to me (I’m no engineer) as I’d have had the friction surface on the wheel itself (Like a bandsaw wheel tire) but it worked for a good many years so I guess it was ok.
anyway, I got a load of rubber washers and replaced them which is a real pain as it means stripping the machine which requires removing the spindle motor and the saw and removing the top. Put it all back together and it lasted about an hour before they were all gone again. I tried again with neoprene washers - same thing. Then I tried some neoprene tubing a bit like hosepipe and that too was destroyed within a day.
the khives (tersa) are sharp and the bed clean. Really running out of ideas now and it’s frustrating as it takes about three hours to strip it and put back together and another couple to align everything.
so.. anyone got one of these or something similar who might have any suggestions? Record have no parts and we’re not interested when I contacted them. SCM (who made it) don’t seem to have parts for the minimax version. I’m thinking of trying a small bandsaw tire or a urethane-tired wheel in place of the driving wheel next.
any ideas would be greatfully received

chris