Jensen blade failure !

[hamdogg]

I had three sets of genuine blades shatter on my Jensen earlier this year, machine only couple of years old - Redwood stripped and rebuilt for £££'s they blamed copper grease on fixing bolts but I still think blades were faulty batch.

 

 

They blamed copper grease??

[PeteB]

Take it out yourself, off to an engineering company, weld and balance after a blade bed check and away you go! Batter and plate the holes in the wrap and outer shell and get on with life.

 

Or......write it off and get a GreenMech!!!!! ;-)

[defenderjack]

What model jensen is it?

 

2001 a518 d

[defenderjack]

Take it out yourself, off to an engineering company, weld and balance after a blade bed check and away you go! Batter and plate the holes in the wrap and outer shell and get on with life.

 

Or......write it off and get a GreenMech!!!!! ;-)[/quote

 

Thanks pete , will have a think !

[Johny Walker]

2001 a518 d

 

thats the baby of the jensen familay, so verey simlar to tw150,

 

you need to up grade to a A530t

[defenderjack]

thats the baby of the jensen familay, so verey simlar to tw150,

 

you need to up grade to a A530t

 

Looks like i might have to ! Will i need to upgrade to a thicker pair of boots too ?

[oakeydokie]

What model jensen is it?

 

 

Mines A540

[Ian C]

Glad it weren't a TW that broke, I couldn't stand the put downs.

 

Hahaha yeah it would of been painful mate.

[Ian C]

I wonder if over tightened blades are a factor with these failures?

[Billhook]

All these machines with high speed cutting blades are wonderful when they are working well.

But they do give me the heebiegeebies when I remember stories about them

 

1. A straw chopper on the back of a tractor lost a blade and it came out through the casing just like the Jensen but still had enough energy to go into the tractor rear tyre and puncture it.

 

2. A blade on the big old Cooksley planer/thicknesser broke up and a piece went up like a bullet through a striplight on the workshop ceiling.

 

3. A lad was killed near here when using something as mundane as a Bosch angle grinder. On his own in the workshop in the evening and the blade broke up and a piece went into his neck and jugular artery.

 

4. The Lucas Saw always worries me when the blade is in the horizontal position .I know that it has substantial plate to try and shield but seeing the velocities involved it is worrying especially as it is spinning at the same height as my balls!

 

It is a dangerous world, working with high speed tools and even with all the precautions and protective clothing there is still an element of bad luck.

We take all the safety precautions.........and then we drive on the roads!!!