Originally Posted by
Nick Shattuck
To clear up my original question...
In real-life, I'm an electrical engineer specializing in metrology, so I think about these things. I'd like a way to cut six 0.50" deep dados, realize after I've changed the blade height that I need two more, quickly set it back to 0.50" and make the cut again without the trial and error technique that seems to be the most popular idea here. it just helps with efficiency and reduces the frustration caused by an off-cut.
It's really not about the absolute accuracy of the height, but the repeatability, where I could write down a dimension and make cuts and come back a week later and repeat the same cuts and have identical pieces.
Hope this clears up the point of the post.
Nick, if you've already cut some dados & then realize the you need to cut a couple more to the same height, you could rub a pencil mark on the already cut dado, set it over the blade, then raise it until the blade just touches the pencil mark. Lock the blade at this height. Then cut the new dados to this height & if you really want the previously cut dados the same exact height as the new dados, then recut the previous dados. You might end up cutting 0.005" off the previous dado, but what difference would that make; they would all now be the same height.
Oops! Didn't see Yonak's post. We obviously think alike.
Last edited by Al Launier; 01-06-2019 at 12:22 PM.
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