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So I took out all the tools needed to disassemble the Lion...a 5/8" open end and a flat screwdriver...not a single Phillips in sight
First off were the 90 deg cams, made of brass, then the 45's. The 45's are actually two parts...the upper part where the screw head is exposed including a button head to hold the fence at 45...and a lower cast aluminum cup holding the threads and capturing a spring and post. Doesn't fly all over the place but needed to stand the Lion on it's back to hold both pieces...then all the small parts into a small plastic bin.
Then the fences also held in place by springs and clamping screws for holding a set angle...easy enough...but ya gotta wiggle 'em a bit...cast does not bend BTW... The clamping wing nuts also press against a T-pin that then presses against the deck plate to hold the fences at angles other than 90 and 45.
With the 5/8 wrench the post carriage bolts come off easy enough. Nuts were clean, shiny and looked brand new, threads were clean and nuts spun off by finger. These posts hold the blade guards (ears on either side of the posts), top rail for the top knife slide and hold the knife plate in the lower slide. These slides are nothing more than capture rabbets to allow the knife plate to slide left and right. Between the lower plate and the knife plate there's a big gear that transfers the rotation of the handle to a left right motion for the knife plate. The slide edges turned out to be crisp and clean...no chips, no rounding...and important to the knives making a proper cut...like a scissor.
Once the carriage bolts came off everything comes apart...but beware the two roll pins on the bottom and the one on top that aligns the posts to the upper plate and the lower deck plate...PHEW...almost a catastrophe...
You've seen those National Geographic documentaries where they show how a lion lays in wait for its prey to come closer...???? Well the knives on this baby do the same thing...sitting patiently waiting for you to make a mistake... Nope...didn't get me yet...
So now the deck plate is completely free of all the parts and ready to be cleaned...
Please note that I haven't cleaned the knives at all...nope, not one bit...that's the way I got 'em...see how they're just sitting there, smiling, waiting...
As you run your fingers, gently mind you, across the surface of the plate you can feel some small bumps...no more than the goose bumps on my own arms and back of the neck...gotta go. No, not mine...mine won't go away for a while...
I did a quick wipe down of the parts, light degunking of the plate and made sure all the parts were lightly oiled while they await the heavy duty cleaning. In the last picture you can see the right side being more pitted than the left...Apparently the left was used more than the right...never saw one of those frames before (only left miters)
Chapter Two - The Real Cleaning (to be continued)... :dance3:
So I took out all the tools needed to disassemble the Lion...a 5/8" open end and a flat screwdriver...not a single Phillips in sight
First off were the 90 deg cams, made of brass, then the 45's. The 45's are actually two parts...the upper part where the screw head is exposed including a button head to hold the fence at 45...and a lower cast aluminum cup holding the threads and capturing a spring and post. Doesn't fly all over the place but needed to stand the Lion on it's back to hold both pieces...then all the small parts into a small plastic bin.
Then the fences also held in place by springs and clamping screws for holding a set angle...easy enough...but ya gotta wiggle 'em a bit...cast does not bend BTW... The clamping wing nuts also press against a T-pin that then presses against the deck plate to hold the fences at angles other than 90 and 45.
With the 5/8 wrench the post carriage bolts come off easy enough. Nuts were clean, shiny and looked brand new, threads were clean and nuts spun off by finger. These posts hold the blade guards (ears on either side of the posts), top rail for the top knife slide and hold the knife plate in the lower slide. These slides are nothing more than capture rabbets to allow the knife plate to slide left and right. Between the lower plate and the knife plate there's a big gear that transfers the rotation of the handle to a left right motion for the knife plate. The slide edges turned out to be crisp and clean...no chips, no rounding...and important to the knives making a proper cut...like a scissor.
Once the carriage bolts came off everything comes apart...but beware the two roll pins on the bottom and the one on top that aligns the posts to the upper plate and the lower deck plate...PHEW...almost a catastrophe...
You've seen those National Geographic documentaries where they show how a lion lays in wait for its prey to come closer...???? Well the knives on this baby do the same thing...sitting patiently waiting for you to make a mistake... Nope...didn't get me yet...
So now the deck plate is completely free of all the parts and ready to be cleaned...
Please note that I haven't cleaned the knives at all...nope, not one bit...that's the way I got 'em...see how they're just sitting there, smiling, waiting...
As you run your fingers, gently mind you, across the surface of the plate you can feel some small bumps...no more than the goose bumps on my own arms and back of the neck...gotta go. No, not mine...mine won't go away for a while...
I did a quick wipe down of the parts, light degunking of the plate and made sure all the parts were lightly oiled while they await the heavy duty cleaning. In the last picture you can see the right side being more pitted than the left...Apparently the left was used more than the right...never saw one of those frames before (only left miters)
Chapter Two - The Real Cleaning (to be continued)... :dance3:
