Jon Elgas
02-21-2013, 12:17 PM
I finally purchased my first cabinet table saw (Grizzly 690) and set it up last weekend. What a wonderful experience and joy to do. I’ve been using a Delta Contractors saw for the last 12 years and have always wanted to have a better saw as my projects got more involved. I read here and other places about what saw to get and for me, the price and expectations can’t be beat on this Grizzly saw. That being said, I wanted to share a couple of things I noticed when setting this saw up.
Everything went pretty much as expected, with two exceptions. First, the rear fence railand the nylon follower with the knurled lock nut. The manual says to adjust the fence height off the table to approximately 1/16th and not higher than 1/8th. My saw out of the box was sitting around slightly over 1/8th. I could only get the fence down to around slightly under 1/8th because the knurled lock nut was hitting the table saw in the mid section of the table where the table is NOT beveled.
Secondly the front fence rail tube is held to the railbracket with 3- bolts. There is a lot of slop on these bolts, about 3/32th of an inch the tube can be moved in or out. I have a large T-Square that I clamped to the blade, and with a large pair of calipers I managed to get the rail 90deg to the blade within about .008 thousand. How are you guys doing this? When just bolting the rail tube up the first time, I noticed the fence being out to the blade the further I moved it outward to the 29.5 max rip point. That’s when I thought maybe the rail tube was not aligned. I didn’t see anything in the manual about this, so thought of pointing it out here. I would love to hear what others are doing to align the front fence tube.
All in all, I’m very happy with the saw and can’t wait to start the next project!
Everything went pretty much as expected, with two exceptions. First, the rear fence railand the nylon follower with the knurled lock nut. The manual says to adjust the fence height off the table to approximately 1/16th and not higher than 1/8th. My saw out of the box was sitting around slightly over 1/8th. I could only get the fence down to around slightly under 1/8th because the knurled lock nut was hitting the table saw in the mid section of the table where the table is NOT beveled.
Secondly the front fence rail tube is held to the railbracket with 3- bolts. There is a lot of slop on these bolts, about 3/32th of an inch the tube can be moved in or out. I have a large T-Square that I clamped to the blade, and with a large pair of calipers I managed to get the rail 90deg to the blade within about .008 thousand. How are you guys doing this? When just bolting the rail tube up the first time, I noticed the fence being out to the blade the further I moved it outward to the 29.5 max rip point. That’s when I thought maybe the rail tube was not aligned. I didn’t see anything in the manual about this, so thought of pointing it out here. I would love to hear what others are doing to align the front fence tube.
All in all, I’m very happy with the saw and can’t wait to start the next project!