Ray DuBose
02-22-2009, 3:42 AM
Well I'm going to sound very lame but here I go.
Back in 2002 I purchased a Delta 36-431 Table Saw. For those interested you can see it here:
http://www.tools-plus.com/delta-36-431.html
I was all gun-ho about doing wood working but had never done any. The Table Saw was my first Purchase. Well several years go by and I use it off and on but never was happy with the cuts it made. It burned a lot of wood . had a lot of kickbacks so recently I figured I would get a dial indicator and make sure this thing was set up o.k. (I know I know, should have been the first thing I did out of the box)
Well I pull the Blade off and test the Flange and it has maybe .001 run out. I test it with the Blade on and it seems like it's +/- .007 or .008 run out. I lay a straight edge across the blade and it see light. The blade is a a thin kerf Freud from one of the intown Big Box stores. I know Freud is higher quality but it's one of their cheaper blades. Seems the run out is a lot for the blade.
The Weird issue is that when I tested my fence which is a biesemeyer at the front I set it to 0 and at the very back it goes back to 0 but all along it it's .002 - .004 off. Does anyone else have issues like that with there fence? Should a Biesemeyer do that? I know it's a thick laminate over Ply on the face but it should be stable. Do they get compressed with kickbacks or anything?
Will try to get another saw blade but the fence has me worried that I may not stop this saw from burning without changing out the fence.
Any Ideas? Not sure if Delta would replace it with it being that old.
Ray
Back in 2002 I purchased a Delta 36-431 Table Saw. For those interested you can see it here:
http://www.tools-plus.com/delta-36-431.html
I was all gun-ho about doing wood working but had never done any. The Table Saw was my first Purchase. Well several years go by and I use it off and on but never was happy with the cuts it made. It burned a lot of wood . had a lot of kickbacks so recently I figured I would get a dial indicator and make sure this thing was set up o.k. (I know I know, should have been the first thing I did out of the box)
Well I pull the Blade off and test the Flange and it has maybe .001 run out. I test it with the Blade on and it seems like it's +/- .007 or .008 run out. I lay a straight edge across the blade and it see light. The blade is a a thin kerf Freud from one of the intown Big Box stores. I know Freud is higher quality but it's one of their cheaper blades. Seems the run out is a lot for the blade.
The Weird issue is that when I tested my fence which is a biesemeyer at the front I set it to 0 and at the very back it goes back to 0 but all along it it's .002 - .004 off. Does anyone else have issues like that with there fence? Should a Biesemeyer do that? I know it's a thick laminate over Ply on the face but it should be stable. Do they get compressed with kickbacks or anything?
Will try to get another saw blade but the fence has me worried that I may not stop this saw from burning without changing out the fence.
Any Ideas? Not sure if Delta would replace it with it being that old.
Ray