Hi all. Any Hammer owners out there that have experience making bed adjustments? A bit specific of a request I realize. I ask because my infeed table is way out of wack and I am over on the hinge side trying to make some adjustments, but am finding it un-cooperative.

It is a new generation machine where the beds lift simultaneously, so the hinge side adjustments are made with 2, 5mm allen screws that operate similarly to the temple bolts on the other (non-hinge) side. Problem is I need to lower the table (speaking long axis wise) down towards the cutter block – I thought backing off the closer screw and advancing the rear screw would pitch it forward into planer with the outfeeed, but for some reason when I raise the rear screw (even with the nearer screw backed off) it simply raises the whole bed instead of pitching it forward. Looking at the screw placements, it actually makes sense because neither is past the half way point of the bed length (fulcrum of balance). So how can I pitch it forward without somehow pushing down on the front of the table… an inprecise and difficult feat I would imagine.

As a side note, I would like to vent that hammer tech support, while at times and under guidance of certain techs has been ok, has also at times been horrible (mark that techy is a grump). Didn’t listen to my problem, just spouted rhetoric and then tried to make it seem like it was impossible my jointer was out of whack as it was, then started vaguely explaining adjustments that made no sense because it wasn’t the model of my machine.

Do any other owners also find the Hammer literature on adjustments really lacking? Why wouldn’t they include such an important adjustment as hinge side (which is a part of over-all) bed adjustments?

Anyways if anyone might have experience or advice on this I would appreciate it a lot!

Tk