Sound of the machine

[violaine]

In the thread "new bloke with supergrind 2000", I spoke of my Supergrind 2000, purchased used and is now working wonders.
Now I am a little curious as to the "normal" operating sound of the tool...I looked up the threads and found no title about the "sound" of a running Tormek machine.

Mine is emitting a mild screeching sound while running. (is this normal?)....do I need to lubricate and where? (I think I should google the parts diagram of the machine so I will know.)

I wish someone can post a video (via you tube) for me to compare.

thanks in advance

[violaine]

right after my posting, I went to see a you tube video of Jeff..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYURcwkKGPs

now that thing is running soooo silently compared to mine..

please help! I hope to be able to post a video of the thing running so you can hear the sound.

like I said, mine was purchased used and stored in a dungeon I guess...rain or shine...damp or dry...(Philippine weather..LOL)

[Herman Trivilino]

The main shaft rides on two nylon bearings mounted in the housing.  Remove the main shaft and lubricate the bearings.

http://sharptoolsusa.com/parts.finder.php?target=parts&parent=9

The main shaft is labelled "10" on the diagram.

Be careful removing the grindstone.  There was a lot of rust and I broke mine removing it.

You can read about it here ...

http://forum.tormek.com/index.php?topic=929.msg2133#msg2133

[violaine]

thanks Herman for chiming in...

in fact I have removed the main shafting and you are correct that the thing is surrounded by rubber/plastic bushings...there is no problem with this and it is silently moving around.

the noise is emanating from the motor housing itself in the spindle, I mean from the armature..so what I did was  to remove the motor partly by hammering the locking spindle with a spring but could not remove it altogether...I was able to remove the fan housing and a dried cockroach carcass was the only thing that I saw..now noise comes out when I manually move the fan motor..perhaps the bearings?
when I turn the bearings, the one on the leather strop end is "relatively" loose but is moving without any flutter..now, I believe there is another bearing at the opposite at the fan end and this is where I stopped from tinkering.

I am afraid I sprayed a little of DW40 on the bearing located on the leather strop end...I hope I can post the video soon via youtube.

btw, I returned everything in its place and hoping with the noise, there is no harm if I continue to operate it.