@Tapper the infeed table appears tilted in causing it to cut angled boards. If your around this weekend let me know and I’ll pick your brain on adjusting.
I believe the issue last time around with the joiner was the insets, not the table.
It’s definitely the table. With a long straight edge it’s easy to see.
I was able to adjust it. Cutters are too dull for figured woods but is no longer tapering the boards.
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Wow. Those inserts have only been on the tool for about 45 days or so. Time for a flip I guess. You know, at $400 a blade change, we’re going to have to find some easy way to sharpen them. It takes a very very long time on whetstones.
Well to be fair I was cutting curly white oak which is very difficult grain. Jointer left tear out 1/8" deep in some spots. Planer did fine.
As observed in WSB class yesterday, jointer is still tapering. At this point, this almost HAS to be because the out-feed table is not level and/or co-planar with in-feed table. If you look at where fence meets table, you’ll see an intended/designed gap for chips and dust to escape, BUT you will also notice the gap is not the same width along the out-feed side. (note: I forgot until I was writing this to check to see if fence is able to “see-saw” when loosened, which might account for discrepancy in gap width).
Even after I adjusted it I measured 0.015 taper. It’s a pain to adjust with the straight edge we have. Really need a feeler gauge set to get it right.
@jlcourtman has a copy of John White’s book “Care and Repair of Shop Machines” he keeps at the 'Space in which he discusses how to make and use a “master bar”, which is used to replace an expensive long steel straight edge, using MDF and drywall screws. Excerpt from Google Books here: John White: Making a Master Bar.
I’ll see if I have enough MDF laying around for this. Will probably need to purchase…real issue will be storing it and keeping it from being abused, ruined, or junked once we have it built.
There are feeler gauges in the next to bottom drawer in red/black toolbox in machine shop (goes without saying to return to there when done). Also the dial indicators are in 2nd drawer in brown toolbox in machine shop.
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The book is living in the “maintenance” drawer of the CNC cabinet. Covers almost all of the machines we have. Marshal - I’ll be around one day this weekend. Once we get it locked it, it should not drift too much. As to storage, I think we can make some pegs high up on the wall and leave it there, at least until we know for sure we are zeroed in…