I have a Grizzly G0444Z TS. The back of my blade when I rip a board is almost a quarter of an inch closer to the fence than the front of my blade and causes gunk to build up on the right side of the saw blade, and causes the board to bind up and I have to force it through. .I used ovenoff to clean the blade. My sawblade is not bent. According to my saw manual it says to loosen the trunnion bolts and move the assembly to the right or left and retighten the bolts. I did this I cannot get the blade dead-on. The assembly will not move any farther. It is off by a 1/16th of an inch. Is this an acceptable tolerance or do any of you have any suggestions as to how I can get it perfect? Thank you all for your suggestions.
Sounds like you are measuring from the cut i.e. the fence. If so that is not the place to align the trunions. Do that measuring from the miter slot. And this must be right on. Once that is aligned you can align the fence to the same miter slot and if you got the first alignment right you could measure to the blade. I would use the miter slot.
With a trunnion style saw there are normally four bolts holding the trunnion to the table saw top. Loosen three of the bolt and leave one tight. I recommend leaving one of the front bolts tight. The tight bolt acts as a pivot point. Then use a wood clamp from the corner of the table saw top to the trunnion to make fine adjustments. Raise the blade all the way up and mark one tooth of the blade with a marker. Rotate the blade until the marked tooth is at the front level with the table top. Using a small combination square, place the square in the miter slot tight against the side of the slot toward the blade. Set the rule so it just touches the side of the marked tooth on the blade and tighten the locking nut on the combination square. Rotate the blade so the marked tooth on the blade is now at the back of the slot. Using the combination square check the distance from the slot to the tooth. Depending on which direction the trunnion needs to move use the wood clamp to draw the trunnion in the correct direction to make the distance from the miter slot to the marked tooth on the blade equal at the front and back of the table top. Snug up the trunnion bolts and re-check both the front and back again. Continue to adjust until the the distance is the same. Now your blade is parralel to the miter slot.
Now we were all tought to make the fence square to the blade. In my opinoin that is not correct. I recommend adjusting the fence so that it is off about .005. The fence is closer to the front of the blade than the rear. This prevents kick back. If you do not have a dial indicator to set this try cutting a small block of wood about 3" long. Push the block through the front of the blade and out the back. The block should touch the front teeth and not touch the back teeth. Some people will say a board will not ripe properly if you offset the fence. That is not correct. The board will cut to the narrowest width weather it is at the front of the blade or the rear.
The blade is set parrallel to the miter slot so you can cut perfect miter cuts using the miter gauge.
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