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I recently purchased a shopsmith sawsmith 2000 and I'm very happy with it once I aligned everything, until I went to put the blade surround plate back in and noticed that it's barely touching the edge of the saw blade. If I reverse the red saw guard in the table top, the blade is centered between the two edges but obviously I can't tighten it down that way. I figure I must have the wrong arbor or be missing an adjustment that would keep the blade centered in the middle. Is there an adjustment for this or do I just need a different arbor?

Just to reiterate, I'm talking about the red plate on the top of the saw table that surrounds the blade. The blade is barely touching the right side of that red plate as if the arbor isn't all the way on the spindle, but the arbor is snug against the ring on the arbor and there's no way that I can see to change anything. The saw blade is also snugly attached to the arbor and fully on the ring and the hole in the saw blade is the right size. I checked the manual but I don't see an adjustment for laterally moving the blade.

Sounds like the wrong arbor. I'll take a look at mine later and take a pic of the arbor you should have.

I appreciate it! I originally thought it was the wrong arbor (and have a slightly shorter one on there to temporarily resolve it), but the riving knife insert is off now, so I think the arbor is right (it's 1 11/16" from base to blade)! In taking off the back panel, I did notice that the plate that holds the bars the blade travels on is cockeyed and slightly blocking the vacuum attachment which makes me wonder if something is wrong there. The table top appears to be mounted correctly (everything lines up on the edges). I can't imagine how this guy got the saw setup like this.

Do you have a manual? I'd suggest go through the set up and alignment process from the start. The manual can be downloaded from this link: http://vintagemachinery.org/pubs/747/18151.pdf

Here's some pics:

Dang, yep, that's the right arbor. OK, I think you're right, I'll need to look at the whole assembly. Wild. Thank you so much for the pics and the answers, I really appreciate it. If I can figure it out, I'll let you know what was up.