Front and Rear Rail Alignment, Mark V 520

[Ed in Tampa]

Ah nice try Dusty!!!!! Thankfully Chiroindixon gave me a reality check.
I know your game Dusty, you talk about some adjustment, get me thinking I go out and make myself crazy checking it out.

I remember the last time everything was fine you started talking about trunnions and drilling holes. I went out sure enough my trunnions were drilled wrong. I was going to redrilled, the drill bit stuck ripped the trunnion out of my hand and I still have pain in that hand. End result I have an injuried hand, a ruined 1/2 drill bit and my story of woe gave everyone a good laugh. Effect to my SS. No change after all of that my SS is virtually that same as it was before.

You almost had me again. I was rushing out to check my SS today when I noticed my lawn needed mowed so I cut my grass. After cutting I came in and sat down to rest and looks at the SS forums. Chiroindixon sent me an PM all excited cause he figured I would go out mess up and have another funny story to tell of new misadventure.

I ain't falling for it this time Dusty. I'm on to you! My table rails are just fine and even if they aren't I ain't checking them. My body can't stand another injury.
Ed

[dusty]

When I upgraded to the rip scales, I simply followed the directions Shopsmith gave me and I have had no problem. I have slowly come to the realization that the word "precisely can mean different things to different people. As long as I follow the directions I have no problem Since the scales are able to be removed I have simply bought into the notion that "precision is built into the machine".

BPR

I believe you have made a good decision in your analysis that says "precision is built into the machine".

However, that is only true if you maintain the machine in a way that preserves the accuracy that it is capable of.

After you have had a heavy week of configure and reconfigure, drill press mode, table saw mode, horizontal bore mode, drill press mode, table saw mode and on and on - then you can say with confidence that you either have precison or you lost it somewhere.

My bet is that you will be exceedingly proud of your Shopsmith and of yourself at the end of each and every period of such use.

[dusty]

Chiroindixon sent me an PM all excited cause he figured I would go out mess up and have another funny story to tell of new misadventure.

I ain't falling for it this time Dusty. I'm on to you! My table rails are just fine and even if they aren't I ain't checking them. My body can't stand another injury.
Ed

That is good, Ed. I know and you know and Doc knows that your Shopsmith is just fine. Furthermore, if it isn't, you'll learn that too while you are using it one day and it does not perform exactly as expected. I just hope that you are not cutting an expensive piece of wood when you make that discovery.

Now I don't have to worry about that much. Normally, poplar is about the most expensive wood I ever cut.

I used to hoard my stock of 12" wide clear white pine but that is all used up. I carried about 200 board feet of that around the country for years. Oh I love the smell of pine when it is cut.