glenn bradley
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Just finished rotating the inserts on my G0490X for the first time. Total time spent was about 2 hours for 40 inserts. Pretty uneventful. The main risk is getting bored doing the same thing 40 times and hurrying or skipping a step. Another tip of the hat to the forums at large. I had read many a sorry tale of the person who was inconsistent or not careful enough. The report is that a very tiny piece of crud can make this effort a do-over so I took my time and was very methodical.
Here's my setup:
The first couple took me about 4 minutes apiece. I clocked it again around insert 25 and was down to about 2-1/2 minutes apiece. The last 10 took about 12 minutes but, I will have lost ALL that skill by the time I do it again ;-) The routine goes like this:
Here's my setup:
The first couple took me about 4 minutes apiece. I clocked it again around insert 25 and was down to about 2-1/2 minutes apiece. The last 10 took about 12 minutes but, I will have lost ALL that skill by the time I do it again ;-) The routine goes like this:
- Unplug jointer
- Remove guard
- Use wedge and a light tap from the hammer to lock the head in position
- Loosen screw with small torx #20 and handle
- Back out screw with magnetic tip so as not to become unhappy
- Remove insert and wipe the bulk of the crud off of it
- Drop insert into cleaner
- Use nylon brush to scrub seat area on the head with cleaner
- Blow seat area clean with compressed air
- Scrub insert clean and then dry with paper towel
- Inspect insert to assure no foreign matter is anywhere (X-Acto knife helps if you find anything stubborn)
- Seat insert
- Apply small drop of 3-in-1 to threads of screw
- Insert screw with magnetic tip and finger tighten
- Apply 50 - 55 inch pounds with torque wrench
- Repeat (more or less)