JULY/AUG
2004
Volume 47/Issue 4
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Project
Articles
•
Antique Quilt Display Rack
• Heart-Shaped Display Stand
• Duck Napkin Holder
DEPARTMENTS
•
Ask Smitty
• Owner’s Gallery
• Letters from Owners
•
New Baby Workshop Calendar
Academy Notes
Hardwood
Information You Should Know - Pt 1
Service Pointers
MARK
V Alignment
Woodworking
Technologies
New Woodworking Glues
Safety
Safety Lessons I've Learned
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Service
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MARK V ALIGNMENT
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Making sure that your MARK V is always well-aligned is one of your keys to safe and accurate woodworking. To set up a new machine, carefully follow the instructions in your owner's manual...then check the various alignments every ten hours of running time or sooner if you have difficulty with certain woodworking operations.
A good checkup will require that you use your Sanding Disc (to check the spindle-to-table alignment), an adjustable wrench, a 45-degree drafting triangle and a measuring tape or ruler (preferably one with a 132" scale).
GENERAL PROBLEMS
|
Problem
|
Possible
Cause(s)
|
Remedy |
| Cut not made according to desired setting |
Blade misaligned with table and/or miter gauge |
Square table and gauge to disc or blade |
| Stock chips on top outfeed edge as crosscut is being completed |
Miter gauge swlot not parallel to blade |
Align table to blade |
| Stock “burns” when ripping |
Rip fence angles toward blade Improper Blade |
Align fence with blade
|
| Stock pulls away from rip fence |
Fence angled away from blade |
Align fence with blade |
| Sawblade distorts its kerf when ripping or crosscutting |
Rip fence misaligned with blade |
Use 1/4" dowel in side of miter gauge to check alignment of blade to saw slot |
