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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 3:35 pm
by keakap
JPG40504 wrote:Belay the safe mode. Do not fear! I shall jog yer noggin.

You were 'attempting' to use a new table with new 510 rail and old 510 rails on the aux tables. When 'upgrading' to 520 you replaced all the rails etc.

___---___--- I thin that's about the gist of it. ___---___---

Funky tables????:D

___---___--- Da Funkiest! T'was the apron boss thing that really blew my mind.___---___---

P.S. IIUC SS has yer original old 510 table and rail.
___---___--- I may have removed the rails, but yes, SS has the old stuff, whatever it be. I got the phone call saying a new table is on its way only a couply days after I mailed it! Their decision time upon viewing the item in question must have been measured in milliseconds.

Btw, (not to add on er nuttin) the video of the steel straightedge spinning freely on the Main table surface was of the New table. That would not have worked on the old table. In fact, it was so bad I think I coulda placed a hole bag of marbles on the old one and in a second or two they would all have gathered in the center of the table.
I suspect when that table was made, as it emerged from the oven (furnace, whatever), still hot and malleable, it was accidentally dropped to the factory floor, 80 feet below. By the time it was finished bouncing it was probably cooled off so they just threw it onto the "Done" pile.

It was an impressive piece of workmanship, I must say. (Glad to know it was manufactured (uh, manufractured) outside SS!)

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 3:36 pm
by JPG
keakap wrote:Didn't mean to add on (good point, btw!). Intended only to clarify earlier scant commentary. de nada (literal translation]
Still have the old rotten tables. With the one set of retained rails I use one occasionally as a support-only aid, while the other one holds down the garage floor.

As to the mixed opinions on the rail wall thickness variation, it is a continuing mystery to me how anyone could possibly believe that if you move one rail's outermost surface (tangent to plumb) to a different vertical plane than the one to which you are trying to connect- by virtue of the reference surface being INside the tube and at a different horizontal distance from the table- that you could achieve perfect alignment for porpoises, let's say, of fence parallelism.
I would suggest as an illuminating exercise that a very straight item of 5 foot length be laid on a very straight surface, then a shim of the critical dimension- 1/64" in this case- be placed under the item near one end and the item held fast to the base surface so its only two points of contact are the end and the shim. Then measure the height of the other end off the surface. That, then, would be the amount to overcome by force-stress with the fence placed a large distance from the blade. This canNOT be a formula for success!
And then there's the everyday PITA caused by having to wrestle with the connector tubes (Aux tables) every time they are used.

(I just exercised the exercise, using 5' and 1/64", with the shim's contact edge at 7" from the end. Error = 130 thousandths or >1/8". That's Big!

Didja add in the compensating sag?:D


Wanna relieve the garage floor of its redundant burden?:rolleyes:

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 5:22 pm
by keakap
JPG40504 wrote:Didja add in the compensating sag?:D
___--- no thanks. If I don't get out of this subject soon I may start having those nightmares again...
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Wanna relieve the garage floor of its redundant burden?:rolleyes:
___---I was about to say yeah, then I realized if I put one rail on each table I can still get some use out of 'em as in/out feeds and who knows what else.
You must have quite a collection by now, eh?

Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 9:39 pm
by JPG
keakap wrote:___---I was about to say yeah, then I realized if I put one rail on each table I can still get some use out of 'em as in/out feeds and who knows what else.
You must have quite a collection by now, eh?

No, but I hate to see useful things languishing! ;)

P.S. If ya decide a couple rails etc. need a return trip, let me know!