I bought this 8" jointer almost 2 years ago from the classifieds on TA. It was in really good shape, but it needed some TLC. As much as I've wanted to get to taking care of it, I've had too much going on and not enough room. It's also a 220v jointer, and I had to add a 220v circuit to my garage for it. It's got a 2HP, 3 phase motor with a phase converter to get it to single phase. Since it has plenty of power, I might get a helical cutter head for it.




I should've started taking pics as I got it apart for some before and afters, but oh well. The fence, fence mount, guard, and rabbet edge all came off pretty easily.

The tables were another story. I wasn't entirely sure how to remove them at first. There was a block bolted to the base that the adjustment screws went into, and looking back on it, I was supposed to unbolt that and slide them off with the adjustment screw assembly. Everything I saw said to remove the adjustment screws and then slide the tables off. I eventually figured out that I had to lower the tables and pull the cutter head to unbolt the adjustment blocks. The adjustment screw for the outfeed table came off ok and wasn't rusted too bad, but the infeed was rusted pretty bad and the thrust bearings were shot (I've got new ones coming). It took a lot of PB blaster soaking and tapping to finally shake the handle loose and get it apart and off the table.

Base after I cleaned the ways some


Uncleaned infeed table


Outfeed table after some degreaser and evaporust. I'll probably have to do some more work to get it cleaner.


Pieces from the adjustment screws and the cutter head gibs after an evaporust soaking. I have finished a bunch of other parts, but they weren't done when I took this.



I also had to file the way gibs flatter. They look like they've been reversed at some point and like the set screws have dimpled them in places. I think I've got them good now though. I'll probably coat them and the way dovetails in dri-slide (molybdenum disulfide) when I put everything back together. Honestly, I'll put it on everything that slides on this thing, as well as the adjustment screw threads.

Once the tables and base are all cleaned up, I'll get them back together and start taking apart the fence and cleaning everything. I'm not keen on painting anything at this point, but you never know. Depends on how I feel when this is closer to being done.

Here are more of the cleaned parts so far. This includes everything for both adjustment screws and their blocks. I realized I somehow screwed up the tip of the infeed screw trying to get it out. I've got a universal thread restorer coming tomorrow that should fix it.

For reference, it's the one with the big wheel. That housing sits between two thrust bearings and is held in a hole inside the table using a set screw. The long threads go into the block. To get the whole thing out you need to either remove the wheel/crank from the end, remove the thrust bearing and housing, and then pass the screw through the other end, or you can knock out the roll pin on the collar on the other and just slip it out. Both the roll pin and wheel were rusted on and wouldn't move without some convincing with a hammer, and somewhere in there the threads must've made contact with the table.




Speaking of the table, here is the cleaned versus uncleaned. Picture doesn't do it justice, but the outfeed looks a lot better now. I may come back with an orbital sander and very fine grit wet sand paper (like 600 or 800) to clean it up a little more.

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Also, update time. Got second coats on some parts Friday night and started painting the outfeed. Infeed is completely done. Got some before pics of the outfeed, but no after. I finished at like 2am and just didn't feel like taking any. It had some bad rust spots on the front, but otherwise not bad. Base is the biggest piece remaining. After that, I just need the fence and guard along with some nuts and bolts. Hopefully shouldn't be more than a couple more weeks. I've been avoiding the fence and guard because of the labels. I've decided I'll try to remove the fence's. The guard's probably isn't in good enough shape, but I can try to make a new one. It's hard to do exact matches because they're all different and kind of weird fonts.