Hi All,
This is my first post as any question I've ever have or had has already been discussed at length. So here it goes:
I bought a used Minimax FS35 j/p for 1k. It was in good condition or so it seemed. Tables, relative to themselves were flat (measured with a veritas straight edge) and the machine worked. Short of not having a guard or the jointer dust shoot, it seemed perfectly fine. However I noticed when I started jointing my boards they were coming out convex. I figured the tables needed adjustment. So upon checking I discovered that the tables had sagged as I think one might expect any machine to over time. When I lifted the tables to see how they could be adjusted all I saw were the bolts that held the table in place. As it's not a dovetail or parallelogram bed, I'm not sure how to go about adjusting this to raise the ends. I assume shimming will be in order...but where and how?
Also the outfeed table is off relative to the cutterhead about 0.01" across the width of the jointing bed.
I realize I have a lot of tuning to do but from what I've read this industrial machine should be great and I hope adjustable. It's proving to be exceedingly frustrating.
Thanks all,
Matt