Look great sitting on the Patio. Great job. I have been trying to get my son-in-law to build one for his patio. He thinks I should build it, but he is very capable.
Thanks for the input. The main bearing is not a sealed bearing (see picture). My saw is not quite 2 years old. Fact when I got the owners manual out I noticed it still has a couple months under warranty. Guess I voided that by taking it apart, but where I live there is no maintenance or warranty type outfits. So I would probably have had to do it myself anyway. I tried all the adjustments I could find on the internet. Nothing seemed to improve it much. This may not fix it either, but wanted to try.
I'm thinking that if it does, I will try to get new bearing for the old drive and replace them. Have a backup.
Finished cutting this a.m. (before I tore my saw apart). This is a piece of Basswood about 10" x 5.5". The picture is 8" x 3.5". I lost a few little pieces, anyone that has done this pattern will see the places, but I had a great time with it. 90% or more done with a #2/0 Penguin Silver Flying Dutchman blade. I beginning to really like that little blade.
As to whether I can get this back together or not! I just could not take the vibration anymore, so being stubborn I decided to try to fix it myself. I order a new leakage assembly for the Ex. It came today so heck dive in. The instructions were typical of these things. They are for an Excalibur of about three generations ago. But looking/reading the instruction and my owners manual parts pictures I was able to get it apart and the old linkage out. I'm hung up now because I know nothing about grease, and the main bearing on the new linkage is not greased. This is what my saw now looks like, my scrolling days may be over, and this is the only type of grease I have on hand. Anyone able to recommend a grease or is this good enough? Think I can get this thing back together???
Well done and congratulations on you new family member. I envy you, I want another dog real bad, but the wife says no way. I'd like a lab. Great dogs.
Nice job on the scrolling.
I love this kind of art. Have some pattern/images I saved a long time ago, but never got around to figuring how I would do it. You really did a beautiful job with yours.
Great picture! My folk and brother had a couple flower shops for years. I work with them when I was in high school and after I got out of the service. Delivering flowers was a great job. When I retired, I went to work part time delivering flower. What a great retirement job. I did it for around 10 years after I retired.
My wife got some Shari's Berries and Sheri's cheese cake bites. She has been sick with the flu and and hasn't got to eat them yet.
Here is one option that was posted the other day: http://www.scrollsawvillage.com/topic/18110-new-to-me-a-better-way-to-drill/?hl=chuck
I bought a mini chuck that you put in a drill press once but it was worthless. My current drill press will hold them. My old one would not.
Some one wrote just in the past few days about the Dremel work station.