Last week I posted a thread about how my new Sawstop PCS saw was burning both sides of the cut when I was ripping maple. I felt like I had the saw aligned as good as I could possibly get. I was using a new Woodworker II blade. Just couldn't figure everything out. For those that followed and helped on that thread, here is the final answer, weird as it might be.
I got my old WWII blade back from sharpening by Forrest. When I used it, there was justa little less burning, but still a lot. When I checked the blade, there was 5 thousandths of wobble in the blade when it was mounted. This seemed excessive, since it looked like it had been ground when it was sharpened. As I wa scratching my head, I realized that when I bought the new WWII blade, I also bought and installed a 5 inch blade stabilizer with it.
So I took the blade stabilizer off. The 5 thousands wobble disappeared, as did the burned maple when I made my cuts. Has anybody else seen this happen?
After this, I checked the saw arbor for run-out, and it was about 1 thousandth, which I don't think I can make better. I think the sole culprit was the blade stabilizer.
I'll send it back to Forrest and ask them to grind it flat. (I did follow the directions and file off any burrs on the edges when I first installed it.)
Keith