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Yet another Grizzly Question!!
Hello Everyone,
I just finished putting my new Grizzly G1015 together this afternoon and I have ended up with a couple of questions & observances I couldn't find out about in the Owner's Manual. First, as was recommended by most everybody I talked to, I fitted it with the 10" wheel. When I went to install the first belt, I found that I had to lower the upper sanding arm to point that I had to completely remove the lower hand knob in order to get the arm to go down far enough to get the 72" belt on... Is this normal? Also, I spent the larger part of 2 hours trying to get the doggone wheels aligned so the belt would stay on. After re-reading the manual about a half-dozen times and doing everything it said to do regarding lining things up, I finally gave up with the belt riding OK on the bottom wheel but still riding approx. 1/4" off the top wheel towards the outside. Finally, can someone give me a better description than the manual on how tight the belt should be and how to test the tension? Thanks in advance for you help. Ernie B. Maryland |
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Hi Ernie,
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Speaking of tracking, here are several things that I looked at: 1. Some belts just won't track well, see if your problem is related to just several belts or all of them. 2. Add a few turns of electrical tape (or something of similar width) to the crown of the idler/tracking wheel. 3. Make sure the faces of the idler/tracking wheel and contact wheel are parallel. There is a small set screw on the tracking assy. (you can see it in the photo just above the hose clamp) that will allow some adjustment. 4. Check to see if the contact wheel surface is flat. If not, there are several ways to correct this; with having it done on a lathe probably being the safest, but it can be done on the machine with a file. BE CAREFUL!. 5. If you have to chase the belt while flat grinding, try adjusting the platen out a little further to put more pressure on the belt. 6. Add a brace as TJ Smith shows in a photo below. I use one on my machine. 7. Try a stronger tension spring, again see TJ's photos. I also use one on my machine My machine tracks well, however I still run across a belt now and then that just refuses to track. TJ Smith posted this in an earlier thread: "Put a neo or pryo ceramic platen on it. I used double sided tape. I have a couple things add a brace from the motor to the upright arm to firm it up. Add a spring and turnbuckle to the back to increase belt tension." I added a brace to mine also (this is something Allen Blade suggested in his video): Take a look here for some more Grizzly info: http://groups.msn.com/GrizzlyG1015 Hope this helps some. Regards, Greg http://gbrannon.bizhat.com/ Last edited by gb6491; 08-09-2005 at 04:03 AM. |
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Yes, it's normal to have to remove that one knob to get a 10" wheel on the Griz.
Use the extra adjustments Greg mentions in the last post AND high quality belts to get the belts to track better. That plus dressing the wheel with a file is all I had to do to get satisfactory tracking from the Griz. If you do use a glass platen DO NOT secure it using only double sided tape. Use the Search button for 'pyroceram' to find my extensive previous posts on this very dangerous subject.... |
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Thanks for all the help guys. I'm going to give it another try today, now that that I'm all rested up. I can certainly see where the ideas re: the braces, etc, would really beef the Grizz up.
Thanks again, Ernie B. from Maryland |
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