Hobbyman2,Hobbyman2 wrote:Sorry Sir
I am not familiar with the 520 fence , that said,,,,, is the track for the fence not square with the miter slot?
Every table saw in the world can and should be aligned for cutting using the miter slot ?
Since this is a shopsmith machine designed for multi purpose ,,, the sanding disc is also square/parallel with the table edge as well as the miter slot or it isn't properly aligned ??,,
Not trying to beat a dead horse ,,yet I know it seems like I am ,,,,,just trying to understand more about the table ,,,,
Assuming you feel safe using the jig to set your miter angle ,,doesnt that also align the miter gage with the miter slot in the table??,,, I have to assume you trust the miter slot and fence alignment all the way across your table.
I trust your table,,, and I have never seen it in person.
Sorry for beating a dead horse.
https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/view ... 69#p210669 titled “My method to the alignment process” was a thread I started in April of last year after many dead horses had been beaten on this subject, yet newer forum members for whatever reason keep asking the same answered questions, and some seem to do so just to make others irritable.
Do these folks just not read any of the topics in discussion before asking the same questions? I try to be patient with newbies, but in reading some of the questions, it becomes more apparent that some newbies have Shopsmiths, and some do not.
That’s ok, but if one will just look at what is contained in the first two sticky posts (always at the top) of the Maintenance and Repair Forum, they will find that MickyD in “Everything Mark 5 / V - Technical info, documentation, links”, and JPG in “Newowner Information” have provided links to the relevant areas, that will answer the questions.
Subsequently, in January of this year, at the request of a number of members, I created and added a PDF document "My Method to the Shopsmith Alignment Process" to documents that may be downloaded in the first post in the Buying a Used Shopsmith Revisited thread, as well as posting in in my Google Drive. That PDF document was announced in http://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/viewt ... 88#p226688 and contains information from the previous thread responses and is contained in my contributions to collect and organize answers for newbies and seasoned owners alike in the thread “Buying a Used Shopsmith Revisited” https://www.shopsmith.com/ss_forum/view ... 90#p185690 which has that document link, presently the 2nd one down, which could change as I add material.
Last year in restoring manuals for the 10ER written almost seventy (70) years ago, I found that MAGNA, Hans Goldschmidt and R J De Cristoforo had published alignment instructions for the 10ER before I was born, instructions that mirrored in many ways what I had concluded independently about alignment.
I point you to that by the figure I attach from it, and re-direct you and anyone else to the discussions and comments in the posts above and those that preceded them. We aren’t beating a dead horse, or changing horses in mid-stream on this topic; The stream dried up decades ago, and the horse has decayed into dust for many years.
Everett