Today I was doing some boring and decided to try the carriage stop. The carriage just pushed the stop, even with it quite tight. So I found the clutch adjustment pins to reduce the clutch tension. One pin fit fine, the other did not quite fit into the holes on the clutch adjuster. A few moments on the belt sander fixed that. I reduced the tension too far and the heavy spring pushed the threaded end of the adjuster out entirely. I used a piece of wood to push the adjuster's end nut against the strong spring and spun the housing with fingers to re-engage it to a minimum setting, with 2-3 threads engaged. This seems to be working, at least with the present workload which is quite light. The mechanism slips quietly, not with the loud clicks as mentioned and shown in Frank Hoose's videos. This was at low speed, at higher speed it might get noisy. The feed clutch is another nice feature of the PM-1228.
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