Left side table alignment

Greenvilleguy · Post by **Greenvilleguy** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:58 pm

In Sawdust #13, Nick shows a set screw under the way tubes and he uses it to level the tubes (take out some cant) so the table adjusted for the right side also fits on the left side.

My old greenie doesn't have that screw. Is there another way??

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:15 pm

In the original documentation that came with my machine (late 1980s) the recommendation is to stack washers until you have the required "lift" to obtain alignment.

They then go on to say "measure the height of the resulting stack of washers" and adjust the allen screw for that height.

Since you don't have the allen, could you simply insert a piece of wood, cut to the height of the washers and capture it with the headrest.

On your machine, is there a platform (so to speak) where the allen screw would be. If there is, you could also drill and tap a hole for your own allen screw.

Greenvilleguy · Post by **Greenvilleguy** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:54 pm

I tried to stack washers to see if it would "cant". It would not. One washer on the left raises the right exactly one washer and via versa. It seems that the tie bar is very firm. In the pictures below, you can see that the tie bar is locked onto the way tubes with set screws.

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I'm wondering if I loosen the set screws if I'll get enough "play" to twist the assembly. Then I could add a set screw to the bottom platform, make the adjustments and then tighten the upper set screws.

What do you think?

chiroindixon · Post by **chiroindixon** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:37 am

Try it. Sounds worth it. I've an old '54 Magna I'll try it on...
Still waiting for it to warm up to align my 520 tables. Like Dusty, I had given up and had a right and left designated. If they now will align on either side of my 520, then I will hope one or both will interchange on the '54.
Let us know what happens.....

Doc

smredleg · Post by **smredleg** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:50 am

1st I went out to my garage and looked for that adjustment point on my '86 SS. Not on mine. So I looked at the bench and base assembly blow-up in my '06 accessory catalog (Didn't get on '07 for some reason). SS shows a hex socket setscrew. I'm wondering if SS can provide retrofit instructions. I've got the taps.... It would seem doable.

Wayne
Milwaukee

76" inches of the white stuff so far and more scheduled for Sunday.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:37 pm

Are you certain that you need to have an adjustment?

After viewing this on the Sawdust Session, I went to adjust my own because I have felt that I had something wrong. My alignments are sometimes found to be incorrect; I believe this to be after some Shopsmith relocations.

What I found was that the headrest does not even contact the setscrew. Adjusting it would have no effect. To make the setscrew contact the headrest, I had to screw the setscrew almost all the way in. I did that but if it does anything it is to provide a more stable reating place for the headrest.

Providing the adjustment capability to machines that don't have the screw, however, seems a simple task. 1) Drill a hole, 2) tape the thrteads and 3) insert setscrew.

james.miller · Post by **james.miller** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:35 pm

The adjustment set screw on my SS doesn't contact since installing the Lift-Assist.

a1gutterman · Post by **a1gutterman** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:41 pm

james.miller wrote:The adjustment set screw on my SS doesn't contact since installing the Lift-Assist.

Is this a bad thing? I have the Lift-Assist, but have not installed it yet.

james.miller · Post by **james.miller** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 11:18 pm

My SS still works just fine with the Lift-Assist, I was just commenting about the adjustment set screw with it installed. With the OPR the Lift-Assist makes life easier.