Jointer defective?

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Was adjusting piece and jointer and JUST about to turn it on when I saw the defective sticker out of the corner of my eye.
Won’t use it today, but if it’s actually defective maybe I can move the sticker somewhere more noticable …

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@cfstaley reported a problem with scalloping recently, so there was some concern that the blades needed to be adjusted.

Charlie, did you sticker the machine or was that somebody else?

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Little more eye catching :stuck_out_tongue:

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THanks, Keyan.

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That’s interesting, I hadn’t heard anyone mention that yet. @stewards y’all know what’s going on here?

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There’s a fair amount of daylight between “could be improved” and “defective” :slight_smile:

Probably related to the recent thread about adjusting the outfeed table. I didn’t think to look at it last time I was by the space. I’ll investigate tomorrow night if nobody gets to it before then.

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thanks @Jon the correct star bits are in the cabinet on the right by the bathroom in a small blue box if you see that any of the cutting heads need to be turned around

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I replaced 3x inserts and rotated another 8 or so. There weren’t any super bad ones. These are easy to seat incorrectly, I reseated a couple that looked dodgy.

I ran a scrap through it, looked fine but I didn’t have any wood wide enough to test the entire drum width. I untagged it. If you have a problem, please take a picture.

The inserts may look like Torx, but they’re a TP25 (Torx Plus), I’ve got a blue kit of TP sockets for it with a drill quick release adapter in the cabinet, and you generally need an impact drill to remove and a 1/4" socket to tighten. Please do not use the wrong tool, stripped out screws are a huge pain.

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Thanks @dannym!

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Thanks, all. I am not getting notifications, so didn’t see this until today. I was jointing pecan, and it was leaving a raised section in the middle of a 3 inch face.

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Someone else was also using the jointer at the same time, and decided to keep using it. I left the sticker with him.

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I was also having issues with the jointer a couple weeks ago. The outfeed table seems to be 1/32" or so higher than the cutting edge which was resulting in major bowing in a 4’ long piece of wood. I haven’t tried using it since Danny fixed the inserts, so I don’t know if that problem has been resolved.

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I made a separate post about it but to make sure everyone sees it: a defective sticker is not how you flag a machine for repair. The defective machine process is to

  • Notify the workshop team by posting to YO
  • Tape a large, clear, unmissable out of order note, stating also that the workshop team was notified.
  • Coil up the cord to the machine, tape over its plug, and affix it to the machine next to the note.

We will never fault a member for erring on the side of red-tagging a machine that turns out to not have a problem. If you are going to pick a machine to be paranoid about, the joiner is, I believe, the most dangerous machine in the building apart from we humans.

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I did not take on adjusting the outfeed table. I do not have experience on this. I can look it up and work from there, but I’m not the only one who can do that.