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120 degrees is called 'the threshold of pain'! But I never found that much heat from the motor. The heat came from the upper poly V-belt, caused by too much belt tension. After the belt tension was reduced, the belt temp on the left quill shaft dropped from above 180 to 122 degrees. This test was ma...

After thinking about what I had done in adjusting the belts, I wondered if I had considered or even knew everything that was necessary to set up the belt tension to reduce internal heat. In the 'Checking Belt Tension' section of the Mark V Manual it instructs: 'To check the belt tension of the poly ...

I had bearing knock and heating. The heating was measured with an IR thermometer at various places around the headstock with the cover removed so as to get access to the belts and bearings on the left side. The upper belt was running above 180 degrees and the motor belt was runnig about 140 degrees ...

I want to thank all for the responses to my post. Looks like a lot of us share the same problem. Heat: When the overheat message came on, I grabbed for the first thing I could think of to move the hot air out of the headstock; open up the inspection port on the rear of the headstock and insert my sm...

I bought my SS in the mid eighty's, upgraded to 520 and now modified it to the Power Pro. On my first project, I was planeing some rather soft wormy Chestnut, and after several hours of intermittent operation, I got a heat warning message on the headstock display. I have read about 50 pages of this ...