TW 190 TFTR belts & blades!!

[18 stoner]

Couple of bits of info from you TW owners if you can please, as I am a first time owner of titled machine.

 

Is it necessary to use the belt tension gauge when tensioning belts, or is there another accurate way of doing it?

 

Is the concave cutting face of blades essential?

 

 

 

Any other wee pointers would be useful if anything comes to mind:thumbup1:

 

Cheers, Pete.

[Johny Walker]

Couple of bits of info from you TW owners if you can please, as I am a first time owner of titled machine.

 

Is it necessary to use the belt tension gauge when tensioning belts, or is there another accurate way of doing it?

 

Is the concave cutting face of blades essential?

 

 

 

Any other wee pointers would be useful if anything comes to mind:thumbup1:

 

Cheers, Pete.

 

sell it & buy a jensen

[Mick Dempsey]

Helpful Jonny.

Personally, and I've only a 150 I just tension the belt by feel. Ie nice and tight.

As for the concave blade thing I have used straight blades, and saw no loss in chipping power, but TW recommend concave as they say it's easier on the bearings (iirc)

[18 stoner]

It does get a bit predictable after about the 157th time Johnny😒

 

Cheers Mick, I've had a price for the correct tension checking thingy, it's near as damn it £100 with the vat!

 

I've got 5 sets of knives with the machine and all are sharpened flat. Guess a bit of a trial for a few weeks should tell me the answer to that one.

[PeteB]

I go with the theme that.....for belts, moderate pressure on the middle belt, in the middle of the longest stretch, should reveal that belt below the other two. You could use a tension metre, once you have factored in the tension required, belt and pulley size etc.... For blades, always, always, always use genuine parts and sharpen to the correct value too.

[Timberwolf Official]

Hello,

Timberwolf recommends using the correct belt tensioning gauge to ensure optimum performance from the no stress system, if the belts are not correctly tensioned the feed rollers may not stop/start within the specified parameters.

Equally the blade sharpening angle is 40 degrees and hollow ground, the hollow ground element will ensure the optimum flow path ejection of the chips.

 

Hope this helps

[Hodge]

Do as recommended by Timberwolf that way if you do have any issues it can't be blamed on not doing as you should. They wouldn't issue guid lines etc if they didn't need to. :rolle yes:

[Scott Walker]

Do as recommended by Timberwolf that way if you do have any issues it can't be blamed on not doing as you should. They wouldn't issue guid lines etc if they didn't need to. :rolle yes:

 

How's that 230 going Hodge?

[Hodge]

How's that 230 going Hodge?

 

 

It's brilliant! It's such a different machine to the 150, the 150 feels like a pencil sharpener compared to the 230.

[Scott Walker]

It's brilliant! It's such a different machine to the 150, the 150 feels like a pencil sharpener compared to the 230.

 

Have you got yours now? Or still using the demo machine? I really want mine now.