Okay I’m John from Hud-Son Forest Equipment.
We’re going to go over a quick video today on how to align your bandwheel.
Remove the bolts on your bearings to make the bandwheel adjustment.
To start, get your wheel tracking properly.
So in this case we’re going to assume that this bad blade is running off the back side of the band wheel too far.
We know we always want it flush on our 36 mills and on our little mills.
So I was looking for the blade to be flush on the back side.
So right now we’re going to assume that the blade is going too far that way toward the operator.
We want to move the blade this way.
So we’re going to make the adjustment on this bearing.
Bring that blade this way.
Right now technician Griffen is going to go through the steps and show you how to perform that procedure.
First off we’re going to loosen up our bearing.
just crack it loose and then we’re gonna take the nut off the back side of the jam bolt and loosen that up.
That way we can tight natural loosen it where that blade needs to go.
Currently we have tension on the blade to make this fine tune adjustment is just taking the torque off the bolts because they were already torqued.
We’re probably loosen them up to about 40 foot-pounds or less maybe 35 PSI.
This bearing here.
The shaft will pivot in the bearing housing so when he moves that bearing over there it’s not going to affect it over here.
It’s just going to move in a whisker.
Once he turns that bolt and he moves that bolt he’s going to push that bearing that way which will push this band wheel this way to bring your blade over.
Now what I’m going to do is just loosen the nut on the back side of the jam bolt here.
That’s just loose now.
I could either loosen this or tighten this accordingly.
If our band blade is riding on this side of the wheel then I would need to tighten this jam bolt to move the whole shaft and the bearing this way.
I’m going to tighten this up here and that’s going to move my whole bearing and shaft now spin the blade to see which direction you need to go.
So just doing that little bit actually pushed it past the point where I need to be, so I would have to come and do this on the other side and vice versa.
Push this side and give it to pivot the other way.
So I can get my fan blade on the line.
That’s pretty much all there is to it.
Once you get it aligned you start tracking your blades properly.
It’s hitting the back side of the wheel like it should be then you go ahead and re-torque your bearings back to the 35 PSI like it should be and you’re back in business!
Bring your jam back up snug to the bearing it will be there because you just moved it.
Make sure you re-tighten the jam nut so it can’t come loose.
That’s all there is to it!
Simple project.
