dfstab
07-14-2005, 06:04 PM
I've had the 3650 for a few weeks now. Made a little money on the side, gave my wife half and she let me get the saw. gee, I'm so glad to have such a nice piece of hardware for such a price. Made right here on Earth. ;) I paid full price + CA tax and that's still less then a 73GB, 15000RPM, U/320 SCSI drive which only has the purpose to further enslave humanity to a desk.
There is only so much I can do with a handheld circular saw, handsaw, planes, etc. I built Norm's NY router table using my circular saw. a 64'th here and a 64'th there and pretty soon your talking about real distance - and it never cancels out.
I used the washer business to stiffen the legs up, had to shim the extensions with a bit of paper, etc. I would have not had a pleasant experience if it weren't for the folks who posted here.
I just love tuning it. Bought the grizzly $19 dial indicator - man, aren't dial indicators fun! But I originally set it up with my flat feeler gauges and combo square.
Checked out the arbor business and it's sort of in between, not what I expected. The thread goes all the way to the inside, but the last bit of thread is diminished:
my ts3650 arbor (http://jgraf.freeshell.org/TS3650-Arbor.jpg)
Using my dial indicator, it seems to be around 0.015 less then the surrounding threads. The image seems to be more then a 64'th though and diameter wise it's probably more like a 32'nd. I don't have points on my micrometer so I can't measure that dimension. Don't know if I should ask for a new arbor or not. I've used my freud 208 on it and it seemed fine (1/2" dado, but I don't know what to expect) and I just checked the 1/4 setup and the outside plate does have play in it.
what do you all think?
-jim
There is only so much I can do with a handheld circular saw, handsaw, planes, etc. I built Norm's NY router table using my circular saw. a 64'th here and a 64'th there and pretty soon your talking about real distance - and it never cancels out.
I used the washer business to stiffen the legs up, had to shim the extensions with a bit of paper, etc. I would have not had a pleasant experience if it weren't for the folks who posted here.
I just love tuning it. Bought the grizzly $19 dial indicator - man, aren't dial indicators fun! But I originally set it up with my flat feeler gauges and combo square.
Checked out the arbor business and it's sort of in between, not what I expected. The thread goes all the way to the inside, but the last bit of thread is diminished:
my ts3650 arbor (http://jgraf.freeshell.org/TS3650-Arbor.jpg)
Using my dial indicator, it seems to be around 0.015 less then the surrounding threads. The image seems to be more then a 64'th though and diameter wise it's probably more like a 32'nd. I don't have points on my micrometer so I can't measure that dimension. Don't know if I should ask for a new arbor or not. I've used my freud 208 on it and it seemed fine (1/2" dado, but I don't know what to expect) and I just checked the 1/4 setup and the outside plate does have play in it.
what do you all think?
-jim