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   Strongbow | Oct 26, 2003 09:13pm | #1

   What's the out feed table made from?

   Mike

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   juglans | Oct 26, 2003 09:53pm | #2

   Cast Iron

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   Strongbow | Oct 27, 2003 10:15pm | #7

   Send it back...ring up complain.......

   and if all fails...

   call the president ( as Jack Burton said in BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA!!!!!)

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   rslatm | Oct 28, 2003 12:11am | #8

   To bring you up to speed on this particular matter... Crescent has been out of business for years...like early 50's!

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   Strongbow | Oct 29, 2003 12:27am | #9

   I give in!!!!!!!!

   Some folk are so tight!!!

   50 YEARS OLD and complaining about a couple of inches bow in the outfeed table!!!!

   Give me their address and I will have Christian aid send them some $ to buy a new one for Christmas!!!

   Mike

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   Crunk | Oct 26, 2003 11:23pm | #3

   Have both the infeed and outfeed tables ground flat at a machine shop.  Don't take just the one that has the problem do 'em both.

   The problem as you have described it sounds too big to handle with some 'at home' strategy.

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   rslatm | Oct 27, 2003 01:07am | #4

   More info would be useful like brand, length of tables, dovetailed ways or 4 small inclines under each table? Ir it has dovetailed ways you will have to have the whole jointer reground as a unit. If it has the inclined ways you can just do the problem table. Not just any machine shop will do. Search for a shop that specializes in blanchard grinding. These are the only ones big enough to surface such things. You should be able to get it within .010" which is acceptable tolerance. At least that's what I can expect on a 20" Oliver table. It's more than plunking it down own the magnetic table as it must be shimmed or the magnet will distort it and after grinding it could be worse than what it was. I have had to repair quite a few jointers over the years from schools to shops from Oliver and Crescent and such so my advice is from experience not theory. I find a machinists straight edge is the only way to properly readjust the tables after. Best price for one is at http://www.subtool.com
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   grousemouse | Oct 27, 2003 07:47pm | #5

   Best prices at subtool.com?  holy cow I just checked their site.  12" straightedge $373.00 up to 96" straightedge $2806.00.  I would have to spend 10 times what I spent on my 12" crescent jointer just to check table flatness over its 8' long bed.

   Brian Klare

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   rslatm | Oct 27, 2003 08:34pm | #6

   SE-72-TS  at $263

   Looking at the wrong page!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   http://www.subtool.com

   Click on products...search will lead you to high grade stuff which is what you don't want!!!!!!!!!!!!

   http://subtool.com/stcat/frame_subtool.html

    click on straight edges

   You only need the square edge 6' straight edge.  A comparable Starrett is about $350.   My local sharpening service does paper knives and when they get too small to resharpen for the paper machine they can convert them into servicable straight edges for about $75.  Not as good a steel as my 6' Starrett but perfectly acceptable.  So you can tell I've been dealing with this stuff for a long time. 

    A Crescent...good! Then you can just do the one table.  Nice machine.  Has a good cutter head on it as well.  Could be $150  to $300  to grind   depending on where you are.