dusty wrote:Malcolm: I am pleased to hear that you have resolved your dimensional issue. I am confused as to how but that does not matter. What is confusing is that by removing the stabilizer (which I too do not believe you need) you have simply moved the inside face of the blade closer to the arbor by the thickness of the stabilizer.
Take a look at the pictures of the blade again in post 199444 and 199445. It looks like the stabilizer was on the side away from the headstock which would bring the blade closer to the guard with the 1 1/4" arbor. You can see it was once on the proper side by the blemishes on the blade. The Forest stabilizer I have is .10 inches thick and about 1/2" depth of cut is lost.
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