Hello All,
I just received my new bandsaw, a MM16, and although impressed with the overall quality, I’m a little concerned about the 1/16″ dish that runs the length of the table perpendicular to the blade. Adjusting the torque on various combinations of the trunnion bolts doesn’t seem to straighted it out. Detensioning it totally from the trunnion seems to do no good either. To me it seems that a detensioned table should be flat. I’m sure the good people at Minimax can walk me through this, but I’d first like to get opinions of my fellow woodworkers on whether this condition is indeed normal, and if so how would one correct it. This is my first major power tool purchase and I’d like not to have buyer’s remorse set in this soon. I’d appreciate your collective opinion. Thanks
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Sorry to hear about your table. I just got my MM16 a couple of weeks ago. My experience with MM so far, and all the other positive CS comments I've read from other MM owners makes me think they'll do everything possible (up to and including sending you a new table) to make things right. I certainly wouldn't consider a dish as extreme as 1/16" normal. Good luck and let us know how things turn out with MM.
Waddaya mean it wont fit through the door?
That much out is wrong. My grizzly 17" is dead on. Call the service department and talk to them. Find out what they consider a warantee problem. Some consider anything less that .015 as acceptable, but 1/16th is a lot. Make them fix it. Let us know how it goes.
1/16" off is worse than a Harbor Freight. I'd complain.
There are 4 adjusting bolts with locknuts on the underside of the table mounted to the truunion. Through trial and error of these bolts you can eliminate all dishing and get a truly flat table.
Just tweak slowly in the beginning to know which way you are adjusting things. Check you table after EVERY adjustment, that way you can always back up to where you started. Take your time.
I bought my mm16 in 2003 so it's been awhile since I did this.
Once you get your table flat, you then need to readjust for the table being square to the blade. Both to the rear and to the side. The side is much more important to get dead on.
On the Minimax yahoo forum, under files there is a manual for the M16-20 written by members.
You can also check my link at http://jwsjoinery.com/jws/bsm.htm and see if anything is helpful.
It's a great saw, enjoy it.
Bill
Thank you all for your input. Minimax is sending me a new table via expedited shipping. I'm feeling better.
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