07 Re: Radial Arm saw Top
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07 Re: Radial Arm saw Top
From: hogg@db.toronto.edu (John Hogg)
Date: 28 Jan 88 21:59:24 GMT
In article <181@abvax.UUCP> aao@abvax.UUCP (Al A. Onderick) writes:
>I would also appreciate any suggestions on squaring the [radial arm]
>saw blade to the table surface. It seems the saw needs constant
>adjustment to maintain squareness of cut.
I suggest the book "Fine Tuning Your Radial Arm Saw" by Jon Eakes, Lee
Valley Press, 1987, $14.95. (I notice that you're American; the
American price will probably be less.) This gives complete
instructions (with numerous photos) for adjusting Rockwell, DeWalt and
Sears radial arm saws. The author has given numerous seminars on
radial arm saw tuning, and claims that any of the above machines
can be set up to a precision of 1/128th inch.
Several items could be loose on your saw, and I suggest that you buy
and work through Eakes' book. But first, one question: when you lock
any adjustment at an index point, do you always take up the slack in a
consistent direction? If not, repeatability will be very difficult to
achieve. One of Eakes' cardinal rules is, always perform fine
adjustment from the same direction. This applies to virtually
everything that can be set on the saw. All of the index points
have a fair degree of rattle, and the secret is to adjust the
machine so that when something is locked down at one end of the
rattle, it is properly aligned.
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