When the Delta 22-540 first came out, we needed two beds because my youngest two were still sleeping on their crib mattress on the floor. So with a supplier of birdseye and hard maple nearby, the perfect storm existed to buy a thickness planer.
The Delta 22-540 planed and planed, and when the compost piles got saturated with maple chips, and we got tired of shoveling them into the woodstove, they were finally hauled away with the trash. I should have dumped them in the north 40, but I was probably too sleep deprived enough to think clearly.
Nevertheless, the bunk beds got made, and they survived the youngest two who were drummers, football players, basketball center and power forward, and all the things that 6 foot 5 inch high metabolism guys do. And the beds survived.
The planer didn't do so well. After firing it up a couple of years ago, it started complaining in a very noisy way, as if it was going to get angry and throw parts all over. It came apart twice, got lubed, and there was no almost ready to disintegrate bearings to be found.
Searching, one post was found on another forum where the woodworker had a similar problem, and found the problem to go away with disassembly and lube. In this case, that didn't work.
Has anyone here had a similar problem where their 22-540 planer got very loud with bearing about to spin into bits type noise? How did they solve it?
BTW, the planer still works very well, and gives me quality finishes. It has probably only seen a couple of thousand board feet, so it is still "new" in terms of hours of use. When the need for more frustration occurs, it will get pulled apart again, and lubed again, and again searched for the noisy one. That bearing which keeps me from sleeping and thinking just how inadequate I am at keeping my toys in good order.
The Delta 22-540 planed and planed, and when the compost piles got saturated with maple chips, and we got tired of shoveling them into the woodstove, they were finally hauled away with the trash. I should have dumped them in the north 40, but I was probably too sleep deprived enough to think clearly.
Nevertheless, the bunk beds got made, and they survived the youngest two who were drummers, football players, basketball center and power forward, and all the things that 6 foot 5 inch high metabolism guys do. And the beds survived.
The planer didn't do so well. After firing it up a couple of years ago, it started complaining in a very noisy way, as if it was going to get angry and throw parts all over. It came apart twice, got lubed, and there was no almost ready to disintegrate bearings to be found.
Searching, one post was found on another forum where the woodworker had a similar problem, and found the problem to go away with disassembly and lube. In this case, that didn't work.
Has anyone here had a similar problem where their 22-540 planer got very loud with bearing about to spin into bits type noise? How did they solve it?
BTW, the planer still works very well, and gives me quality finishes. It has probably only seen a couple of thousand board feet, so it is still "new" in terms of hours of use. When the need for more frustration occurs, it will get pulled apart again, and lubed again, and again searched for the noisy one. That bearing which keeps me from sleeping and thinking just how inadequate I am at keeping my toys in good order.
