I just watched the two videos on tuning up the table saw. You covered the main points quite well, however you didn’t cover an adjustment that I found was a problem with my old Unisaw that I rebuilt a while back. I thought maybe you could cover it in a third video maybe.

The problem showed itself as the blade binding against the workpiece as it’s fed out on the backside of the blade, much like we see when the table is out of alignment to the blade, or the fence to the blade. I had just aligned the table and fence and everything was working fine until I started cutting 45 degree blade tilt cuts. It was then that I was getting the blade binding. It didn’t make much sense as it was fine when the blade was at 90 degrees. Then I started thinking in 3D. The problem was that the table was not level to the tilt axis of the trunion. When it’s at 90 degrees, both axis’ are aligned but only at that position. However when the trunion is tilted, the axis deviates from that of the table. The fix was to shim the front of the table up almost 1/8″. This brought the two axis’ closer together and now It doesn’t bind regardless of the blade angle.

I hope you can share this info with your viewers, I know that I’m not the only one who’s had this problem.

Thanks,

Wayne Booker
Salem, OR

I’m really thrilled to see these tool setup videos on your site! I will finally get to take possession of the contents of my late grandfather’s entire woodworking shop later this year and I imagine that I will have quite the task ahead of me as far as tuning up all his old tools, especially the ones that haven’t been touched or turned on in nearly ten years.

That said, you can probably figure that I’d love to see more on tuning up different sorts of tools!

Thanks for the great site, and keep up the good work!

Ed

Thanks