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Ok, at our local HS, we have an open woodshop
class - tho no instruction is ever given unless
asked for.

I need to rip some boards down to 2" and others
to 3". Each set of boards will vary in length
from 24 - 60" inches.

The school shop has an old Delta TS. Last
week and and other student checked the
splitter. The thing was NOT centered on
the blade and was leaning intowards the
fence. We somehow got it aligned by working
it up and down. But I still didn't trust
it that night.

I was wondering if there was a good way
I could safely rip my boards on this saw
if the splitter is still "out of whack".

We do have some hold downs and featherboards.
I could see fashioning a hold down that would
keep the boards down on the table. Then pushing
(with push sticks) the stock thru the cut.


Handsome is as does. It might just be a visual flaw. Run something you
have good control of and see what happens.

Are you saying that this shop is not part of an IA program during the day?
If there's day work going on, the splitter's probably OK. If not, time to
get with the instructor and tune the machine. The folks at the wood hobby
shop on base used to love it when the co-pilot and I would bring in a mess
of wood to prepare, because we left the planer, jointer and bandsaw in
adjustment and with sharp blades.

At school the "advanced" woods class performed most standard maintenance. I
checked their work. Rather imagine that's the case where you are.