Thanks to a viewer comment we removed the C Clamps on our Cook's Sawmill!
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- When we did the Cook's AC-36 Sawmill review, we were talking about having to use the C Clamps on the legs to hold the bed straight. But thanks to a viewer comment we were able to find the holes for the pins. It was an easy fix and we appreciate the help@lumberlinefarmingcountry!
Hello, glad everything worked out for you. When your mill head is all the way back towards the hitch look up to the right hand corner. You will see two flow control valves that are factory set. In the middle of the two valves is a valve block controlled by a 12v coil. That coil controls the bypass and speed of the up and down of the head. The top needle valve controls fast, the bottom controls slow. You might have a bad coil or a wiring problem. You can disconnect the wiring harness and check the coil resistance and the harness for 12v. This is where you need to start. Good luck and happy milling
Appreciate your time and all your advice! We will check it out and let you know.
I picked up a new HD3238 from them in mid June 2024. Set up is very similar, but i don't have the computer. You mentioned thickness of your last board being greater than 1 inch. Mine is one inch, but that requires down pressure of 1" on the drive side roller guide and 1/2" down pressure on the idle side (factory settings)... the drive side band wheel is 1/2" higher than the idle side. The Cooks manual says 1/4" down pressure.
Thank you for the info. Ours actually had an extra 1/4" shim that we had to remove but once we did that, we were able to get down to 1" boards. Happy Sawing!!
@@LumberLineFarmingCountry Mine has the 1/4" shim too. I may eventually remove it once I get everything set up right and working for a while.
@@GrouseHiker we’ve wondered if we were the only ones with the shim.
I've been talking to Robert at Cooks about it. He said removing the shims would not create a problem... just requires new setup of roller guides. Removing them would reduce down pressure on both sides by 1/4". If I don't start breaking blades prematurely with the current down pressure settings, I may leave them.
@@GrouseHiker Understand that but it's wasteful if you can't cut the bottom board to the thickness you need. We had to fix ours.
Did you buy the mill new I have not had problems with my mill but cooks will tell you anything you have a ❓ on I have a mill that has a lot of cooks parts on it and any time I had a question they where very helpful to me if bought it from cooks they will help you with it for sure you have not seen problems I have had two different wood mizers and they were definitely a lot of trouble and I worked on them more than I sawed with them but they sale a lot of mills if I was younger I would have gotten cooks to build me one like I want but what I have is a little bit like that Johnny Cash Cadillac made from a few different mills but it saws good but it is a manual one there's no bells and whistles 😂 But good luck with it And God Bless Y'all stay safe
We are starting to get the kinks worked out but we really didn't expect to have to work this long on the kinks with the money you pay for these mills. BTW, we love the song you are referring too also!! Thanks for watching and God Bless you too!!