"Tom Robison" wrote in message ...
I, too, had the same problem. After lengthy attempts I contacted Biesemeyer
and they are shipping out another right extension. Seems they've been
having problems with QC. I found it tough to trying and remove a 1/8"
concave from the middle of the extension.

Tom


I think my problems are getting worse. I have spent hours assembling
my saw (saw, outfeed table, extenstion table and mobile base). Now
I'm spending even more hours trying to get everything parallel. I am
not an idiot, but this process is making me feel like one.

FWIW, I have a TS-Aligner Jr that I'm using.

I can get the left miter slot parallel to the blade within .002". I
can't seem to get it any better than that. The right miter slot
appears to be close to parallel with the left slot. When I swap the
TS-Aligner to the right slot and run it against the blade I get just
about the same variance using the same spot on the blade.

Aligning the fence to the right slot however isn't going too well. As
near as I can tell the fence is bent. I have placed a tape measure on
the fence with the end of the tape (0") on the outfeed end of the
fence. I start the TS-Aligner at the 35" mark and zero it out. It
runs with less than .001" variance up to the 16.5" mark and then all
hell breaks loose. By the end of the miter slot there is a variance
of .030". This is with the fence in the vertical position. When I
switch it to the horizontal position I have a "bend" of .010".

I'm going to have a little chat with Delta on Monday. My question to
the experts here is "how close is close enough?" Should I have my
blade aligned to my miter slot better than within .002" variance? How
much variance in the fence is acceptable?
--
Jim