As posted earlier when I fitted the new table to the saw I neglected to make sure the blade was correctly tensioned and aligned in the blade guides, so when I did setup things correctly the table ended up to the right of the blades true position – bugger. This in turn threw out the alignment of my freshly made insert so I had to butcher that to make it fit.
Wait there’s more, then I noticed yesterday the table was also not parallel to the front of the saw – skewed to the right a bit. This morning we are going back to fix all that.
When I originally routed out the table for the insert I went over the line in a couple of places so this time I decided to make the insert a bit bigger so I can have another go at cutting a clean circle.
The LED light on the left is conveniently the diameter I want so used the base of that for marking out.
Success the 2nd time around, managed to cut around the pencil line without going over the line – with the Ryobi trim router.
Now we can cut another insert from (as before) a piece of laminate flooring board on the 9” bandsaw.
And clean it up on the homemade drum sander.
View of the bearing guides, we’ll soon have the table back on again.
Looks OK
Enough for this session I’ll come back to fit the table onto the saw and cut the insert slot.
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