Post by Tweetiepy on Mar 9, 2008 9:34:52 GMT -5
Remember when I posted that my cabber had died? Well I finally felt well enough to check it out - I took the pulley off the motor and the motor turns fine (yeah at least that's okay)
Then I removed the cover where the belt was and started looking - sprayed lubricant where I could and found that it was the arbor that didn,t turn - RUST! - I managed to get it moving by turning it by hand but it was really jammed!
- I attached the belt again, plugged in the unit and turned on the motor - SCREEEEEECH! - Hmmm still a problem
I started taking apart & moving the parts in there and found the part that was making the noise - between the blade part & the wheel part there is where the belt goes along with covered parts in there - turns out the part near the blade seemed pretty yucky - I took apart & moved what I could and removed (or moved over) most pieces - I WD40d the part, cleaned it up with paper towels & then blasted it repeatedly with lube! - there was only one part that I couldn't remove and that maybe I should have tried - it's still making a horrible screaching sound but at least now it turns and I'll be able to use it again
I'm rather proud of myself but I wish it would have fixed the problem completely
anyone know if there are bearings in there? - they can't be finished already, I used it quite a bit but not THAT much!
Then I removed the cover where the belt was and started looking - sprayed lubricant where I could and found that it was the arbor that didn,t turn - RUST! - I managed to get it moving by turning it by hand but it was really jammed!
- I attached the belt again, plugged in the unit and turned on the motor - SCREEEEEECH! - Hmmm still a problemI started taking apart & moving the parts in there and found the part that was making the noise - between the blade part & the wheel part there is where the belt goes along with covered parts in there - turns out the part near the blade seemed pretty yucky - I took apart & moved what I could and removed (or moved over) most pieces - I WD40d the part, cleaned it up with paper towels & then blasted it repeatedly with lube! - there was only one part that I couldn't remove and that maybe I should have tried - it's still making a horrible screaching sound but at least now it turns and I'll be able to use it again
I'm rather proud of myself but I wish it would have fixed the problem completely
anyone know if there are bearings in there? - they can't be finished already, I used it quite a bit but not THAT much!
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