Fenda Leather Splitter (restoring) Help

[Woehlk]

Hi friends. im restoring this leather splitter. I lost time, and wupti, 8 months was gone. and cant remember all to well how it fitted together

 

Could this be correct? are the steel bars just supposed to press down on the top roller like that? wouldn't that just mark the roller bad? 

Also, do I need two guys pressing it down before screwing it in? the springs prevent me for doing it alone, with my week spegetti arms. 

[Mulesaw]

1 hour ago, Woehlk said:

cant remember all to well how it fitted together

Here is a link to another Fenda with a lot of pictures 🙂

It does look like that one has had the two arms riding on the top roller. Though I doubt that Rafflenbeul made it like that.

My best guess is that the lumps on each of the arms is supposed to pres down into the little depression on top of the upper roller bearing guides (those that sit on top of the springs)

So those two lumps should be the same height when you turn the adjustment handle on the top of the yoke. (It could be that if you have had them removed, that you have mixed them up, so the wrong one is on top?)

Do you have any parts that look like they would fit in those depressions? Like a small disc for the arms/lumps to press on. That would raise the arms from the roller as far as I can see.

 

If the springs are very hard to compress, you can start by screwing in a longer bolt, or a piece of threaded rod (I guess it is M12), then you put a washer on the threaded rod and a nut. You then tighten the nuts alternately to slowly press the yoke down. Once it is in place, you remove one threaded bar at a time and replace it with the original bolt.

Brgds Jonas