warped or bellied jointer tables
yahel_armster
| Posted in Power Tools and Machinery on
Hi.
I bought a 6″ jointer, and both the infeed and outfeed table have a bellie in the middle, just where they meet the cutting head, is there a way to fix this? I’ve already sent the tables to the manufacturer and have them return, just to find the same, a good 3/16 gap of light when i use a trusted ruler.
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Yahel,
Yow! That is astonishingly gross. Unusable, of course. I am curious about the make.
I cannot picture what feature might be overtightened down below to cause such a condition, although I have seen penty of old, large industrial jointers whose tables dish with the slightest tweaking of the table clamping screws.
From what looks like pitting, if this is an old machine with plenty of meat in the castings, there might be enough to allow regrinding. The larger grinders can accomodate a whole machine, without dismounting the tables.
The cheap alternative might be to try spreading the casting from below, with studs and turnbuckle, or some such.
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