Bill Fitch
01-04-2010, 10:26 AM
All,
I finished the assembly of my jointer but ran into an issue I could not find a good answer for. In the manual that came with my jointer, it showed that you first set the outfeed table 1/16" (0.062) above the cutterhead, then adjust the bladess to the same height as the outfeed table. Effectively, the bladess are then 1/16" above the cutterhead.
The new manual for this jointer available from Grizzly has no such measurement. In contrast, the manual for the Delta DJ-20 shows this to be 0.010 and even mentions this is a critical measurement. Someone assembling this jointer from the new manual could end up with a random height, and that makes no sense to me.
It appears that the blades are protruding out from the cutterhead farther than they need to be with this setting, and that this height could be reduced a bit, say to 0.050 or 0.040. I am wondering if this would make the blades more stable or not.
So, for all you jointer old timers, what blade height should one target? What type of settings result from Jointer Pals? Any other rule of thumb?
Thanks,
Bill
I finished the assembly of my jointer but ran into an issue I could not find a good answer for. In the manual that came with my jointer, it showed that you first set the outfeed table 1/16" (0.062) above the cutterhead, then adjust the bladess to the same height as the outfeed table. Effectively, the bladess are then 1/16" above the cutterhead.
The new manual for this jointer available from Grizzly has no such measurement. In contrast, the manual for the Delta DJ-20 shows this to be 0.010 and even mentions this is a critical measurement. Someone assembling this jointer from the new manual could end up with a random height, and that makes no sense to me.
It appears that the blades are protruding out from the cutterhead farther than they need to be with this setting, and that this height could be reduced a bit, say to 0.050 or 0.040. I am wondering if this would make the blades more stable or not.
So, for all you jointer old timers, what blade height should one target? What type of settings result from Jointer Pals? Any other rule of thumb?
Thanks,
Bill