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Chapmanruss,

Thank you for the information. I really appreciate it.

Thank you JPG.

JPG,

Thank you. I will lubricate the free spinner.

Chapmanruss, Thank you so much for the information. My jointer has a metal plate attached and it says model number 620 serial number 36159 I can say that the cutter head assembly part has a number on it, 100000, stamped on it. Not sure what that means, but there it is. May I ask, should the the fron...

JPG,
Thank you for the guidance. I will give it a try.

JPG, I have the whole unit out of the machine, I have taken off the blades and the wedgess, cleaned up everything the best I could. I watched one video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqUmmIye0os at minute 7:43, where a man took to using a punch or something else to hammer off the cover. I am not s...

JPG,

Mine is from a 1950's Greenie. It has not seen the light of day until this week. I do not know how to remove it from the base, I have tried to pull it apart by hand, but that did not work. Any ideas as to how to remove it from the whole unit?
Thanks for your continued replies.

JPG,

Thanks for the response. The "end cap" is the part that goes over the bearings. I do not know what it is called. It is part number 28 and 29 on the joitner diagram on the Shopsmith website: https://www.shopsmith.com/ownersite/par ... xpview.htm.

What exactly is a "Pillow block"? Also how do you remove the end cap that covers the ball bearings on a jointer cutter head assembly housing unit?

Thank you for your advice.

Darcy W