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A while back I ordered and received the riving knife for my ss (now equipped with the “Pro” headstock). I had it for a month or so and a couple of weeks ago decided to install the riving knife. No problem with that and everything seemed to work well. However, last week I went to install one of my 12 ...

Thanks to all of you who have responded. Both the shop radio and the car radio happened to be tuned to the same station (970 AM, Wisconsin Public Radio).

I just went into my shop to check on radio frequency. The static is on all of the AM stations. There is absolutely no interence on the FM band ...

Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this. When I have the radio on in my shop and the main PowerPro switch is on, I get a staccato interference on the radio. It is not necessary to be running a tool for this to happen. It appears to be strictly a function of the main (upper) switch.

This ...

Have updated my current profile as of 12-25-2010.

Bob

I may have originally joined 4 years ago but had forgotten about it for a number of years. I said 6 months but I may have forgotten that I had originally joined 4 years so I probably "re-joined" approximately 6 months ago.

I will attempt to update my current information.

Bob

In regards to which headstock I ordered (and have), it is the new one rather than an upgraded one. That probably explains why the need to adjust all of the SPTs (with the exception of the thickness planer) to bring the hubs into alignment. I didn't mention it in my first post but I have used ...

Just got my new power pro headstock last week and installed it on my 520. One of the things that was mentioned in the instructions is that the horizontal and vertical must be perfectly matched by adjusting the mounting tubes. OK, I mounted my band saw and slid power pro over to it. The hubs did not ...