Originally Posted by John TenEyck
IMHO you are wise to question what you read here or anywhere else, including this. Do your own testing. Draw your own conclusions. Then you'll know what's correct.
Not only that, but read the Owners Manual. If it doesn't provide direction on wheel alignment, my guess would be that it isn't something that is needed and maybe shouldn't be messed with.
Last edited by John K Jordan; 10-11-2018 at 3:22 PM. Reason: fixed quote syntax
Northfield uses fishing line, and plumb bobs. I remember seeing a picture somewhere, but couldn't find it.
http://www.northfieldwoodworking.com...llAssembly.pdf
I would say that depends on your situation. A saw should, and most certainly do, come properly adjusted from the factory. But a used saw may or may not have had abuse, and even a new saw will on occasion not make the grade. My last one came out of the box with a slight wobble in the blade - about 10 thousands or so. I sure as heck wasn't going to ship the saw back for that if it wasn't an actual structural issue, so I adjusted the lower wheel to make it fully co-planar with the the top tracking adjusted to a central adjustment location. Problem solved. The physics of the blade isn't that hard - if the wheel planes have twist in them, the blade is going to wobble. If the wheels are not aligned properly top to bottom, the blade won't track, or won't be square to the table in the plane of the cut. Took me a bit over an hour to get the saw in trim. It would have take far longer just to get a factory rep on the phone.