I was messing around with my relatively new and unused dial indicator today
to verify alignment of my table saw and came up with a few questions. I
DAGS and got some answers to my questions, but was wanting to see if anyone
could give me some more direct answers to the questions below.

Here are the questions.

1) I have the Grizzly Dial indicator. I haven't figured out a good way to
mount it to the miter guage or any other fixture to use it for checking the
blade alignment vs the miter slot. What I have done so far is to clamp the
big bulky assmebly that comes with it to the miter guage and to it that
way... but that puts the indicator at an awkward angle that is hard to
read... and you can't get it closer than about a half inch to the table.
Anyone have any pictures as to how they mount their dial indicator to
something for checking alignment? I'm hoping to not have to go buy a tool
specifically for checking alignment. I planned on building a jig for it,
but figured I'd check here to see if anyone can show me one that they built
first.

2) When testing the blade alignment, tooth at front vs same tooth at back I
get just over .001" out of line which is good enough for me. But, if I
slide the guage along the blade the measuer varies in a range a little over
..002". Is that normal for a sawblade to have that much variation in
thickness or do you think it is the miter slot? I have a Forrest WWII that
cuts great, FWIW.

Thanks,
Mike W.