(lwwise) writes:

[...]

So I ordered such part, installed it in my PM66 and have been cutting
3/4 cherry and walnut ever since. Then comes the problem. I needed
to make some legs from 8/4 stock, so I cranked the saw blade up and
discovered to my horror that the WWII was contacting the painted
portion of the Bies Splitter. Knowing that it is not too unusual for

shouldn't the splitter move up together with tha blade? Id does so on
my (Metabo) saw, thus giving no problem at all in whatever height the
blade is set: th splitter is always optimal, only if i would try to
make a (anyway dangarous und unadvised) plunge cut i would have to
remove it.
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(lwwise) writes:

[...]

So I ordered such part, installed it in my PM66 and have been cutting
3/4 cherry and walnut ever since. Then comes the problem. I needed
to make some legs from 8/4 stock, so I cranked the saw blade up and
discovered to my horror that the WWII was contacting the painted
portion of the Bies Splitter. Knowing that it is not too unusual for

shouldn't the splitter move up together with tha blade? Id does so on
my (Metabo) saw, thus giving no problem at all in whatever height the
blade is set: th splitter is always optimal, only if i would try to
make a (anyway dangarous und unadvised) plunge cut i would have to
remove it.


Juergen -- unfortunately, it doesn't. Your saw has a "riving knife"
that both tilts and moves up and down along with the arbor. It's a
superior technology. The OP's saw, like most sold in the US, has a
"splitter" that's in a fixed position and merely tilts with the arbor.
When the blade is cranked up or down, it changes position relative to
the splitter.

I've got the corresponding Bies splitter on my Unisaw. When the blade
is cranked all the way up the clearance between the blade and splitter
housing is very small -- probably 1/8" or so. OP might be able to solve
the problem by judicious application of a file to the splitter housing.

Abe
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