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Old 10-24-2016, 08:43 AM   #318
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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I spent all weekend taking it apart and tweaking it.

The biggest improvement in eliminating vibrations was re-balancing the wheels. It's possible there was moisture in them from the glue up and as the glue dried and the wood around the glue dried, the balancing I did before had to be tweaked a little. Although it's also possible that I just did a shoddy job last time.

Also, a big improvement was that the pulley on the drive wheel was 20 thousands of an inch out of round. So I spun that wheel up again and very carefully used a chisel to get the pulley groove round. I could feel the chisel wanting to rock back and forth with the pulley as the wheel rotated each time, so I really held it tightly against the tool rest and just eased it ever so slightly against the pulley to nibble gently away at the higher side as it came around. I could hear a bit of a pulsating cutting sound as it only nibbled away at the high side. Once the sound became constant cutting, I stopped. When I measured it again, it was 5 thousandths out of round.


Then I turned my attention to getting the wheels lined up better. And I started taking pictures.

To get the top wheel directly over the bottom wheel, I needed to pull it forward by 8-9 mm.

So I started by removing the brackets that hold the entire top wheel assembly in place. Fortunately they are just screwed on. No glue.

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Then I cut two shims 8 mm thick.

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I glued the shims to the uprights.

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And clamped them to dry

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