Machine Setup: The Table Saw

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   Sharper802 | Jul 24, 2018 01:07am | #1

   Wixey angle gauge works well for ensuring the blade is square to the table as well as verifying other angles.

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   sbrader | Jul 24, 2018 09:43am | #2

   I really appreciate this as a new saw owner! Thanks for the tips to help me keep my saw in proper working order.

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   user-7106104 | Jul 27, 2018 06:23pm | #3

   Ellen, this is very informative and very well presented. Great job! Btw, the jointer knife replacements give me fits. Any videos on that?

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   WoodCrafter | Sep 21, 2018 12:40pm | #4

   Good stuff.
   Lets not neglect tweaking any jigs dependent on the setups.
   Particularly jigs that depend on slot to blade or fence to blade relationships.

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   stevek2 | Mar 11, 2020 08:18pm | #5

   Great video, but I would have liked to have seen instructions for non-Saw Stop table saws with the trunnions bolted to the bottom side of the table top.

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   potterboy | Jun 10, 2020 12:54pm | #6

   Thanks for the tablesaw video. Helpful, but would be more helpful if she actually showed how she performs all of the adjustments rather than just describing

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   fiftyohm | Jun 10, 2020 01:02pm | #7

   Stevek2 - Yes. Those are called hybrid saws, rather than cabinet saws. I have one. It's a PITA to adjust.

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   fiftyohm | Jun 10, 2020 01:05pm | #8

   These are good videos. Only thing is, (and this could be just be my OCD talking), but that table saw was a mess. Vacuum that puppy out!

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   user-6764105 | Jun 11, 2020 12:29pm | #9

   A good video IF you have a Saw Stop saw. It left me wondering how to apply to my Iron City saw. Of course, I have the manual, but my point is that if one goes to the trouble to make such a video, it should probably be "generic" in its discussions and not "specific to one product". Not all of us out here have a Saw Stop saw, and if you make it for that saw alone, it needs to be in the title so it is known up front.

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    user-6764105 | Jun 11, 2020 12:51pm | #10

    I didn't mean to make that comment I just made sound so critical. Certainly, it covers the procedures well, but a good discussion of all the alinement difficulties, principles, etc., beginning with how all items have to be alined with the rotational axis of the blade shaft would be great would it not? That may include manufacturing considerations, but that's OK. I have an mechanical engineer's way of thinking about it, and that is to imagine that the plane in which the blade rotates when it has zero runout (wobble or non-nutating motion) must be perpendicular to the machine direction of the saw and its guiding features (slots and fence). :)