A few weeks ago, I had a kickback incident with my Ridgid R4511 (granite top) table saw. Because of it I decided to check the alignment of everything.
The blade is .003 out of parallel with the left most miter slot. Arbor has 0 runout. Fence was toed away from the rear of the blade in comparison to the front (so it shouldnt have pinched the material)
Today I decided to tackle the .003 (really? .003?) and for some reason I just cant get it any closer. I really didnt want to deal with re-aligning the whole top, so I stuck with leaving the right front tight as the pivot point, loosened the other 3 corners and then was tapping on the left rear, to move the back of the table closer to the blade.
Anytime I got closer than .003, as I tightened down the left rear (where I was tapping to move it) it went back to .003 after fully tight. I could literally watch the dial gauge move even from hand tightening.
I tried tightening that bolt last, first, in a pattern with the other 2, etc. I tried to overshoot the .003 so when tightened it would come in line with 0, but I could never get it closer than .001 or so and tightening it led it back to .003.
So Im still at .003 out....and now Im wondering, should I just leave it?
If I try to rip 3/4" red oak hardwood (which is when I had the kickback), it takes a lot of effort to feed through. 3/8" plywood breezes right through the blade no matter what. The blade is a WWII that hasnt seen very much work at all (and I just cleaned it with LA Awesome Yellow)
Thanks in advance.
-Chris