Shelix install on DW735 help

[Gary Click]

Great!!

I think that when you use the head you will be so pleased that it will all be worth it. The noise is greatly reduced both cutting and running and the cut is wonderful. I planed a piece of quilted maple yesterday that I couldn't hand plane with a low angle block plate on a skew. The Shelix cut it with no tearout.

[Ethan O'Neil]

Thanks a lot Gary, if I would have only read the instructions, you'd think I'd learned this by now.... at least I had a helper!

[Myk Rian]

at least I had a helper!

Well, short of tearing our own machines apart, we tried. Next time, I'll just sit back.

[Ethan O'Neil]

Now that I have gotten a chance to use it today, I can only remove about 1/32 of waste from a board or the cutterhead will stop. Anyone else have this happen? As long as I make sure the removal guide doesn't go above the 1/32 mark, everything is ok, more than 1/32 and the cutterhead just bogs down in the stock. I thought that maybe the helical gear had gotten loose, but that wasn't the case.

And don't sit out Myk, I need all the ideas I can get!

[Craig Coney]

I can take about 3/32 max. If i try to do an 1/8" my CB on the jointer tripps.

One thing I did notice is that my thickness indicator is slightly off after the changeout.

[Tom Veatch]

... I can only remove about 1/32 of waste from a board or the cutterhead will stop. ...

Motor too? Or just the cutterhead?

Belt tension too low and belts slipping?

[Ethan O'Neil]

Motor is still running, just the cutterhead stops. How would I adjust the belt tension?

[Tom Veatch]

I'm not personally familiar with that model, but generally, belt driven devices either have an idler pulley that can be used to set the tension by a tensioning spring on the idler or, if there's no idler, the motor mounts usually have elongated slots that allow the motor to be positioned a little further away from the driven pulley to increase the belt tension.

I gave a quick look at the owners manual for the DW735 on the DeWalt web site and it said that a drive belt replacement should be done by qualified service technicians. So I assume that it uses a special belt arrangement and maybe there's no tension adjustments like there usually is for V-belts. In that case, I'd try to watch the pulleys when the machine is running and see what's spinning and what's not. Maybe there's a key missing from one of the pulleys. If there are safety interlocks involved, you'll have to use your own judgement as to whether you can safely defeat them long enough to observe the motor/belt/pulley operation.

[Craig Coney]

check to see that the key is still in place on the pulley to the new head.

IIRC, there is no belt tensioning on the unit.

[Gary Click]

I agree sounds like a missing key or could the belt be turned over with the ribs to the outside?