At 09:50 PM 12/29/2006 -0500, Ben Zwissler wrote:
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>After less than an hour of use my Harbor Freight Central Pneumatic inline
>sander won't work properly. It started losing power and then finally just
>quit working. I found two problems, the eight metal studs that the nylon
>sanding plate rides on were gouging into the plate and there was a lot of
>resistance in the piston and valve motion.
Ben,
I've got about 3 of them and personally think they are pretty good.
Do you put power tool oil in them? How often? I had one that quit
working - but I'd had and used it for several years.
So I bought another one. This one, I figured, I'd better keep oiled.
So I pulled the plug on the side and put some (a lot) of oil in it.
Thought it might be like the impact wrenches. When I went to use it,
it started flinging oil all over my work. So I tried to clean off
the oil. To no avail. So I disassembled it to clean it. But when I
tried to reassemble it, I could not get it to work. Well they were
on sale again, so I bought a 3rd one and finished my project.
When I was done the project, I proceeded to take the 1st one apart
paying a little more attention to how it was assembled. It turns out
that I had the timing off. So if you take one apart, pay particular
attention to where the slide is and the position of the cam. Once I
figured that out, I got the 2nd one running.
The 1st one had quite because I hadn't used it in a while and apparently
gotten some moisture in it and the cam had rusted in place. Once I took
it apart and cleaned the cam and pistons, I was able to reassemble it.
So now I have 3!
John
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