Dado Shims

[John Adank]

I had to build a fire to stay warm.

[Mark W Pugh]

The other thing that just occurred to me is that even my dado blades are kind of a pain to get off the arbor. I have the Infinity Dadonator blades and they can kind of get caught up on the threads as well. If I had 4 or 5 dado blades on my arbor, it would be kind of difficult to separate them far enough to insert the shims. I would hate to drop the shims inside the cabinet and have them fall down my dust collection hose on my SawStop. I dropped my arbor nut down there about half a dozen times the other day while removing and installing my dado blades the other day. I had to disconnect the hose and use a telescoping magnet to get it. Like I said before, winter in Wisconsin, arthritis and swollen fingers make it kind of frustrating for finger dexterity.

I have the same dado set and I was thinking the same thing. The magnetic ones may be the way to go.

[Lornie McCullough]

I keep a deck of playing cards in the shop, and cut an oversize arbor hole in the center of the cards to use as shims. I'm cheap (or perhaps frugal).

Lornie

[Brian Hale]

Shims are annoying, i use masking tape