Attention DW733 owners.

I was thicknessing some glued up panels for some frame and panel doors
using my DW733.

These were 12" wide and about 22" long and I was getting terrible
snipe. I damn near lost one of them as I neared finished thickness
because of a huge divot on one corner.

The design of this thing is pretty bad as far as the alignment of the
in and out-feed tables, and snipe is always a PITA but this was really
bad.

I decided to dismantle it and see if there was another problem. Sure
enough, one of the headlock dodads is broken. This is difficult to
see and a casual look won't notice the break.

The semi-circular steel band (#66 on the parts drawing) that contacts
one of the four cutterhead guide rods (#24) was fractured, so when the
lock arm was activated there wasn't any pressure on that side. I
believe this allowed the head to move on one side only causing snipe
on the opposite side of the workpiece.

If Dewalt ever ships the replacement parts I'll report back on whether
this is the cure.

Wes