So a few months ago I took the plunge and got a new jointer, the Grizzly G0490X...been using it with great success, has the standard Grizzly spiral cutterhead. But I have continually had a small area of "streak" cutting when I pushed the fence back to cut the full 8" width.
It appears to be caused by one of the cutters riding a little high. I located the particular cutter I thought was the problem, removed it, cleaned it thoroughly, cleaned its bed thoroughly and reinserted it and made sure it was well seated and the screw was tight. No better. Rotated the cutter, replaced the cutter, still no improvement. It is as if the cutter bed is keeping the cutter too high. I didn't want to start dremeling the bed at risk of really screwing things up, and at the suggestion of some of the fellows at the segmented turning workshop yesterday, I returned to the problem area with the intention of honing down the cutter on a diamond stone. I did some of that with no change and quit when I thought I might actually leave the screw head higher than the cutter edge.
Then I took a closer look at the cutter bed and noticed two small nipples on one side, (they are proud of the bed)....which were not present in the beds of two adjacent cutterhead beds.
Don't know what these are for, or even if they are supposed to be there, but I am putting a call into Grizzly tomorrow AM.
I'll let you know what they say.
It appears to be caused by one of the cutters riding a little high. I located the particular cutter I thought was the problem, removed it, cleaned it thoroughly, cleaned its bed thoroughly and reinserted it and made sure it was well seated and the screw was tight. No better. Rotated the cutter, replaced the cutter, still no improvement. It is as if the cutter bed is keeping the cutter too high. I didn't want to start dremeling the bed at risk of really screwing things up, and at the suggestion of some of the fellows at the segmented turning workshop yesterday, I returned to the problem area with the intention of honing down the cutter on a diamond stone. I did some of that with no change and quit when I thought I might actually leave the screw head higher than the cutter edge.
Then I took a closer look at the cutter bed and noticed two small nipples on one side, (they are proud of the bed)....which were not present in the beds of two adjacent cutterhead beds.
Don't know what these are for, or even if they are supposed to be there, but I am putting a call into Grizzly tomorrow AM.
I'll let you know what they say.