DW 745 fine tuning

[sunnybob]

I've made a few cuts with my new table saw. Good but not perfect, which is understandable as the blade that came with it is a 24 tooth contractors blade.
So I am now fitting my Freud 60 tooth 260 mm blade. In the setting up process i have found the fence is not square to the table. It leans in to the blade.
I have been very careful in setting the blade perpendicular to the table and that is correct. The fence is marginally out as far as parallel but that is an easy adjustment.
The problem is when I slide the fence to the blade, it touches the top teeth, but there is a 1.2mm gap at table height. measured with a vernier and double checked with feeler gauges.
Obviously this will give an inaccurate cut varying on the height of the wood leaning against it.
So I need to know if any of you experts with this saw have a way of straightening the fence up?
Theres nothing in the few pages that came with it.
Ta.

 

[Bodgers]

I've made a few cuts with my new table saw. Good but not perfect, which is understandable as the blade that came with it is a 24 tooth contractors blade.
So I am now fitting my Freud 60 tooth 260 mm blade. In the setting up process i have found the fence is not square to the table. It leans in to the blade.
I have been very careful in setting the blade perpendicular to the table and that is correct. The fence is marginally out as far as parallel but that is an easy adjustment.
The problem is when I slide the fence to the blade, it touches the top teeth, but there is a 1.2mm gap at table height. measured with a vernier and double checked with feeler gauges.
Obviously this will give an inaccurate cut varying on the height of the wood leaning against it.
So I need to know if any of you experts with this saw have a way of straightening the fence up?
Theres nothing in the few pages that came with it.
Ta.

That sounds normal does it not? The teeth are wider than the thickness of the blade body so the teeth will contact the fence first.

Repeat the same check with the teeth raised above the top of the fence?



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[sunnybob]

Credit me with some sense.
I am measuring between the tooth that is pointing into the fence and the fence at table level. Same set as the tooth that is touching the fence at the top.. Assuming the blade teeth set is not 1.2 mm out from a quarter of the circumference of the blade, the fence is angled.
Before posting this I triple checked with the engineers square to the fence, separate from the blade.
The fence is angled 1.2 mm from the table.

 

[Bodgers]

Credit me with some sense.
I am measuring between the tooth that is pointing into the fence and the fence at table level. Same set as the tooth that is touching the fence at the top.. Assuming the blade teeth set is not 1.2 mm out from a quarter of the circumference of the blade, the fence is angled.
Before posting this I triple checked with the engineers square to the fence, separate from the blade.
The fence is angled 1.2 mm from the table.

Fair enough. Assuming the blade is exactly 90 degrees to the table and the manual says nothing about adjusting the fence, looks like you will have to shim it in some way...



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[transatlantic]

You'll probably want to add a sacrificial fence (piece of something flat attached to existing fence) at some point, so maybe just do that now and shim it in the process?