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My pneumatic planisher died mid-job and I fixed it with a hardware store part
Last month my planisher just quit in the middle of smoothing a quarter panel on a '72 Chevelle. Motor was humming but the hammer stopped moving. Everyone told me to ship it off for a $300 rebuild, but I pulled it apart on my bench and found a worn out rubber coupler that cost me $4 at my own store. Took maybe 20 minutes to swap in a generic vibration damper from the fastener aisle. Runs better than before. Has anyone else bypassed a specialty repair by jury-rigging something simple?
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elizabethf8529d ago
That rubber coupler trick is genius. I did the same thing once with a dryer belt on my wood lathe.
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