Took My Saw Apart.. Now A Boatload Of Orders To Do..

[kmmcrafts]

Took My Hawk 226 apart last Thursday evening so I could clean up and check bearings.. Those shielded thrust bearings was a little gritty.. so glad I went ahead and did this.. I ended up spraying them down good with break parts cleaner and re-greased them with synthetic grease.. They work real smooth now.. I  don't know if any of you remember me mentioning the connecting rod bearing being dry and gritty or not.. this was a few weeks back when I broke the variable speed unit.. I still need to replace these bearings.. tried cleaning them up but I couldn't get them to spin freely so I need to get some new ones..

Thankfully I have my old faithful 788 or the other Hawk to cut on because I have several orders come in over this weekend to make.. Sure is nice to have a couple back-up saws..   However I could put this Hawk back together in about 10 minutes and run it.. This would be at least an hour job if I had my 788 apart this far, LOL   

[amazingkevin]

On 11/5/2017 at 8:32 AM, kmmcrafts said:

Took My Hawk 226 apart last Thursday evening so I could clean up and check bearings.. Those shielded thrust bearings was a little gritty.. so glad I went ahead and did this.. I ended up spraying them down good with break parts cleaner and re-greased them with synthetic grease.. They work real smooth now.. I  don't know if any of you remember me mentioning the connecting rod bearing being dry and gritty or not.. this was a few weeks back when I broke the variable speed unit.. I still need to replace these bearings.. tried cleaning them up but I couldn't get them to spin freely so I need to get some new ones..

Thankfully I have my old faithful 788 or the other Hawk to cut on because I have several orders come in over this weekend to make.. Sure is nice to have a couple back-up saws..   However I could put this Hawk back together in about 10 minutes and run it.. This would be at least an hour job if I had my 788 apart this far, LOL   

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