Hey everyone,
I'm new to the forum and fairly new to woodworking. My only experience was woodworking in college for architecture class. I recently purchased my 1 3/4 HP PCS from SawStop and been having a hard time with my bevel cuts. SawStop service has been horrible as well after many times calling and emailing and have yet to get no response. I hope to get some advice here. I'm not sure if it's my technique or if the alignment of the blade is off. But here is the issue.
After making the proper alignment check based on the manufacture literature (blade to miter slot, fence to miter slot, and the tilt axis), my rip cuts are not 90 degrees even after checking the blade with an engineer square. I'm getting a small 0.2-0.5 degree bevel constantly when ripping or resawing 3" wide boards. I place the cut edge on the fence and there is a slight rocking. Again, I checked the squareness of my fence with an engineer square. This is also affecting my bevel cuts. I went to cut a bevel at 30 degrees on my 3/4" cutting board with the bevel cut just 1/8 shy from the top of the wood surface. The measurement from the top of the board to the top of the bevel cut is 1/8 on one end and then tapers to 1/32 on the other.
I used a thin kerf blade from Freud. My alignment of the blade to the miter slot is less than .001" and the tilt axis is less than .002". I checked the arbor for runout and it's perfectly fine. I'm using the measuring gauge from A-Line-It to make all these measurements.