I'm headed to gym right now to blow off some steam because I just spent 2.5-3 hours roughly trying to get a dado brake to work with no luck.
Only reason I need the dado brake right now is so I can cut a slot in one of the removable inserts in the Infinity zero clearance insert. I need to make a 45 cut in one of the blanks.
So I slapped on the dado brake and a dewalt 8" dado single blade and adjusted the brake so it scraped a nickel on the top of the brake where it's closer. I got it adjusted, flipped the switch and got the error code. I kept adjusting in and out with no luck. I then read that for some reason it might be the riving knife housing, that it might be too low. I loosened the riving knife housing, flipped the switch and got the green light. Cool! I then cranked it to 45 degrees to make my cut and error code came back on
I then spent probably 45min-hour moving the brake in and out and moving the riving knife housing up and down without any luck at all. I unplugged the saw. Plugged it back in. Nothing.
I don't know what to do. I'd like to be able to use a dado stack.
5hp CB 52" Saw by the way.
Any tips?
I'm not sure if I turn the saw on, get the error code if it will go away if I move the brake in and out AND the riving knife housing up and down. Kind of at a loss.
Tomorrow I'm going to throughly blow out the area of sawdust and see if I can mess around with it. I'm also going to give sawstop a call and see what they say.
It's also frustrating that Infinity tools and the guy that created the zero clearance insert, they made it hard to do the initial cut for a 45 degree insert. A 10" blade doesn't fit before the slot is cut. I'm not sure what they were thinking. They should have had a relief cut in the bottom.