Jim Fox
12-08-2007, 3:00 PM
Well, after my "Woodworking is frustrating" post and reading all the replies (thanks everyone).......it dawned on me, before I moved I picked up a dial caliper from the local industrial supply place and made a jig (like below). So, off to the boxes upon boxes that need to be unpacked and sorted.
Below is my jig I built and forgot I had. DUH :o
So, prior to shooting these pics and posting them, I threw it in the runners on the TS. My thin kerf Freud crosscut blade was in, but running the dial indicator across the blade made the dial look like a seismic event. So, I grabbed my latest Freud full kerf blade and put it in. Much better, but still the needle danced a bit.
So I marked a spot on the blade, zeroed out the dial. Moved the point on the blade to the back position and viola...it's out.......can't recall now, but maybe 0.004 or so. So after some bolt loosening and tweaking, it's now at what I would guess to be 0.00025 or so, cause it's not far off of 0, not even a quarter of a tick (tick = 0.001).
So I lowered the blade and tested the fence. It too was off by a little and running the dial along the face was like a seismic event again. So I guess I need to replace the fence. The fence is a beisiemeyer clone for the ShopFox.
Don't have any 1/2 MDF, but I do have some 1/2 Baltic Birch and various chunks of hardwood.
Does the jig look ok? The runner bar is snug in the track, no wiggling. Does my procedure seem ok, assuming the jig is ok?
http://www.planesnsuch.com/Woodworking/shop/calibrationjig1.jpg
http://www.planesnsuch.com/Woodworking/shop/calibrationjig2.jpg
Below is my jig I built and forgot I had. DUH :o
So, prior to shooting these pics and posting them, I threw it in the runners on the TS. My thin kerf Freud crosscut blade was in, but running the dial indicator across the blade made the dial look like a seismic event. So, I grabbed my latest Freud full kerf blade and put it in. Much better, but still the needle danced a bit.
So I marked a spot on the blade, zeroed out the dial. Moved the point on the blade to the back position and viola...it's out.......can't recall now, but maybe 0.004 or so. So after some bolt loosening and tweaking, it's now at what I would guess to be 0.00025 or so, cause it's not far off of 0, not even a quarter of a tick (tick = 0.001).
So I lowered the blade and tested the fence. It too was off by a little and running the dial along the face was like a seismic event again. So I guess I need to replace the fence. The fence is a beisiemeyer clone for the ShopFox.
Don't have any 1/2 MDF, but I do have some 1/2 Baltic Birch and various chunks of hardwood.
Does the jig look ok? The runner bar is snug in the track, no wiggling. Does my procedure seem ok, assuming the jig is ok?
http://www.planesnsuch.com/Woodworking/shop/calibrationjig1.jpg
http://www.planesnsuch.com/Woodworking/shop/calibrationjig2.jpg