tony mashadi
02-08-2015, 9:40 PM
306463Hello-
So my jet cabinet saw is almost restored. It is a right tilt 3hp. I put on a brand new freud (DIABLO) blade which I had bought long time ago and made my first cut which happened to be on my new zero clearance plate. The cut turned out to be kind of weird ( I attached a picture of how it looked, well, my drawing of it). As I checked the blade to miter slot gap it seems the center of blade is farther in compare to edges, so the blade is kinda concave. This was a new/unused diablo combo blade (50T, I think). I am thinking about getting a good blade such as the woodworker II or infinity but wanted to make sure it is just case of a warped blade and not me over tightening it or something since it is very thin kerf. I can't return the blade since I bought it long time ago. Also should I buy one of those blade stayblizer discs for thin kerf blades to prevent this problem?
Also I was trying to install my shark splitter for the first time and this blade issue doesn't allow me to get contact everywhere on the straight edge when trying to adjust splitter to blade. My splitter thickness is.90 and I wonder if I should have thicker splitter for thicker kerf blades or not?
Last question, I have a brand new xacta II premier fence and the UHMW sheet on its face has some waves at couple spots but it seems the UHMW is stock on by glue as there are no screws. Would one have to pry this face off if need to shim or change and just glue on new face. Or my best option is to just add a auxiliary fence on top of it with clamps. I also want to add a board on the top of the fence to add couple of board buddies and wondering if I have to drill, tap and screw or just glue it on?
Sorry about the lengthy post. I really appreciate all your help in advance.
The oval I drew is suppose to be the ZC plate and in the middle of it is how the cut ended up looking. At the bottom I tried to draw how the blade is warped. Got a bit carried away with that :)
So my jet cabinet saw is almost restored. It is a right tilt 3hp. I put on a brand new freud (DIABLO) blade which I had bought long time ago and made my first cut which happened to be on my new zero clearance plate. The cut turned out to be kind of weird ( I attached a picture of how it looked, well, my drawing of it). As I checked the blade to miter slot gap it seems the center of blade is farther in compare to edges, so the blade is kinda concave. This was a new/unused diablo combo blade (50T, I think). I am thinking about getting a good blade such as the woodworker II or infinity but wanted to make sure it is just case of a warped blade and not me over tightening it or something since it is very thin kerf. I can't return the blade since I bought it long time ago. Also should I buy one of those blade stayblizer discs for thin kerf blades to prevent this problem?
Also I was trying to install my shark splitter for the first time and this blade issue doesn't allow me to get contact everywhere on the straight edge when trying to adjust splitter to blade. My splitter thickness is.90 and I wonder if I should have thicker splitter for thicker kerf blades or not?
Last question, I have a brand new xacta II premier fence and the UHMW sheet on its face has some waves at couple spots but it seems the UHMW is stock on by glue as there are no screws. Would one have to pry this face off if need to shim or change and just glue on new face. Or my best option is to just add a auxiliary fence on top of it with clamps. I also want to add a board on the top of the fence to add couple of board buddies and wondering if I have to drill, tap and screw or just glue it on?
Sorry about the lengthy post. I really appreciate all your help in advance.
The oval I drew is suppose to be the ZC plate and in the middle of it is how the cut ended up looking. At the bottom I tried to draw how the blade is warped. Got a bit carried away with that :)