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ROUTINE MAINTENANCE
BABBITTING STANDARD CHIPPER KNIFE
To maintain the desired chip size, it is important that you babbitt your knives after
each grinding.
NOTE: Pay close attention to the knife gauge. The knife gauge sent with your
machine has 2 sides. One is for the chipper knife. This will be the longer side
measured from the inside width of the gauge.
To babbitt your knives, follow these steps:
1� Warm knives and all babbitting hardware with a torch until all moisture is
eliminated from the surface of the parts.
WARNING: All parts must be moisture free or blow back may occur,
causing personal injury�
2� Place knives into the babbitting xture and bring spacers up to the back of
the knife.
3� Place the babbitting funnel over the cavity and slowly pour the babbitt from
the ladle until the cavity is lled.
4� Let babbitt cool.
5� After babbitt is cool, remove the knife from the babbitting xture.
6� Place the knife on a table and le off the excess babbitt, until babbitt does
not project beyond the sides of the knife. This is extremely important to
assure a proper clamp and eliminate the possibility of a knife slipping out
and contacting anvil.
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