4/14/2007 Approximately 3 hours

Started with the tear down today. That's the easy part most times. I didn't have any stuck nuts or bolts. Only one handle that didn't want to come off of a shaft but it gave under pressure, a big hammer.

Piece by piece it come apart till she it's down to the bare casting. Now if only assembly would go this fast!

One thing I do is keep all the pieces stored together in order. They will probably get mixed up along the way but by that time I have handled them enough to know what goes were. Here they on the make-shift bench, a door on sawhorses, laid out as they came off the jointer.

Here is broken piece on the bearing box. It was worse than I thought and no doubt in my mind that this was water freezing that caused this. Will have to find someone that can weld it for me.

Close up of the babbit bearing and grooved shaft. This is the first one I have seen. but it keeps the shaft in place. A thrust bearing of sorts.

Now it's time for the unglamous part, cleaning up all the parts and pieces.

4/14/2007 Additional 1 hour * 4 hour total

I started thinking about whether I wanted to put on the round head or keep the square head. I stared at it a while and started thinking what was involved in converting it over. I realized that I jumped the gun and needed one of the tables on to measure off of. So I cleaned the slides and reinstalled one of the tables. Now it will adjust up and down and I can get some measurements and decide what to do.