Xcalibur, More on my sticking arbor

[JeffSlater]

Dear all,
Some of you may recall my problems with trying to remove the arbor on my new Xcalibur 10" saw - thank you for those who gave me advice.
Well, last week the nut that holds the blade on got stuck on, this may have been me tightening it up too much but I think it may have been the Allen key fitting in the spindle had been rounded when I tried to remove the arbor originally and so the key slips ie the arbor may have been in too tight on delivery - difficult to prove without a retrospectsoscope and on balance I think it was operator error.
So I phoned Roy at Woodford who put me in touch with their engineer Lawrence who calmed me down and gave me lots of helpful suggestions. The solution came from my wife who said lock the Allen key (1st got twisted into a spiral!) against the table with the 8mm long socket as I had been doing and then hit the spanner with a hammer- off it came. To remove the spindle required molegrips which wrecked the threads.
Woodford sent me a replacement arbor, nut and Allen key f.o.c and could not have been more helpful and the saw has proved to live up to all the praise heaped on it by this forum.

Previously I had a Robland 10" saw for about 6 years which in the main was fine apart from the sliding table requiring to be frequently relevelled with the table and the rip fence having to be realigned every 3 months or so

A salutory tale I thought I would share

Best wishes

Jeff

 

[Steve Maskery]

Glad you got it sorted.
I've also rounded off one of my arbors a bit. Not so much as it is unuseable but enough to mean I have to be very careful when changing blades. I think the trick is to make very sure that the Allen key is properly inserted, not just in a bit.
S

 

[9fingers]

It's good to know that Woodford are providing such support. My saw has been perfect and not needed anything like this.
Another Xcalibur owner brought me his motor for a little tlc a year or ago but other than that I've not hear of many problems with this machine.

Jeff, If you are not in the habit of unscrewing your arbour from time to time, then applying a little copperslip grease to the threads on the small end might be beneficial. Also I don't find it at all necessary to really tighten the blade retaining nut too tight as the left hand thread is self locking.

hth

Bob

 

[Steve Maskery]

Jeff, If you are not in the habit of unscrewing your arbour from time to time, then applying a little copperslip grease to the threads on the small end might be beneficial. Also I don't find it at all necessary to really tighten the blade retaining nut too tight as the left hand thread is self locking.

+1

S