Thread: SawStop Professional just arrived!

Originally Posted by DaveVman

Exactly. I don't plan on slopping glue all over it

Agreed! There is no way known a drop of glue is going anywhere near my saw.

EDIT ... Dave, Its time to start shimming. Its fiddly but it works. One piece of advice when you start. When you find the right size shim after checking with a straight edge, the tightening of the bolts can throw it out. I had to keep an eye on the straight edge as I was tightening the bolts to see if any gaps formed. When they did I went with smaller. Ended up using a 0.005" shim only on the front edge, didn't need a shim on the back which told me the wing wasn't perfect to start with and I'm sure that's what's happening to you.

Cut up a sort drink can for the shim stock..

Thanks for the kind offer of help Bevan. On Friday afternoon I bought some brass shim stock. I spent this morning working on it and getting it all flat. I'm much happier with it now.
I'm doing the final touches of assembly and adjustments to the saw now.

Next step will be some kind of dust collection ducting.

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Originally Posted by DaveVman

I'm doing the final touches of assembly and adjustments to the saw now.

I'm interested to find out how your blade/slot parallelism was out of the box. Mine was 0.01" which Sawstop claims is within tolerance but I found that too much of an error and adjusted it.

Originally Posted by barri

I'm interested to find out how your blade/slot parallelism was out of the box. Mine was 0.01" which Sawstop claims is within tolerance but I found that too much of an error and adjusted it.

I don't know what 0.01" is but I only have some plastic digital calipers so I don't know how accurate I can be. I am going to have to pack it in for today because my wife is complaining about being a shed widow.

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Originally Posted by DaveVman

I don't know what 0.01" is

It works out to 0.254mm.

My PCS was pretty good out of the box - from memory about that much.

This thread prompted me to go look at it again, mainly because of a recent new toy that arrived: https://thewoodkid.com.au/shop/igagi...gnment-system/

To be confirmed tomorrow, I got it dialled in to 0.03mm tonight - and I'm thinking that might be good enough to leave it as it is

Going to drop in a quick update here.

SawStop will tell you to check the table saw alignment with a combination square using the method outlined here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9Cm2o1Vshg

If you're using a combination square, I am sure that method works really well.

If, on the other hand, you're using an analogue or digital alignment gauge (e.g. the item I posted in the preceding post), then I would suggest altering the alignment point - use the body of the saw blade right near a particular tooth, rather than the edge of a tooth itself. Becausr the edge of a tooth is a "knife edge", it's really tricky to get your alignment gauge on the exact same spot every time, whereas it's relatively easy to do that on the body of the saw blade itself.

Originally Posted by Midnight Man

It works out to 0.254mm.

My PCS was pretty good out of the box - from memory about that much.

This thread prompted me to go look at it again, mainly because of a recent new toy that arrived: https://thewoodkid.com.au/shop/igagi...gnment-system/

To be confirmed tomorrow, I got it dialled in to 0.03mm tonight - and I'm thinking that might be good enough to leave it as it is

0.03mm is close to .001" which is great and about what I got after adjusting. Your lucky you didn't have to do it.

So I'd leave it at that

Originally Posted by barri

0.03mm is close to .001" which is great and about what I got after adjusting. Your lucky you didn't have to do it.

So I'd leave it at that

I should clarify that - the measurement of 0.03 was after adjustment. Out of the box it was out by around 0.25mm - still within SawStop's tolerance, but I thought I could tweak it a bit