A couple weekends ago I took delivery on a Grizzly G0490X parallelogram jointer and spent that and this past weekend setting it up and checking the tables. Everything arrived in good condition despite some scary wounds to the shipping crate and box. The outfeed is dead flat as far as I can tell and the infeed is nearly the same or "flat enough".
However, I found the infeed and outfeed to be non-coplanar. Using a 38" Veritas aluminum straight edge centered over the cutter head there was a 5-6 thou gap at the end of each table. Of course this would read worse if I had a straight edge long enough to span both tables, so I decided to adjust.
The outfeed was delivered, for all intents and purposes, dead parallel to the cutter head and set to TDC of the inserts, all good here so on to the infeed. The plan was to simply drop the right end to bring it into the same plane as the outfeed but the infeed also needed tweaking to get it parallel to the outfeed width wise.
Long story short is while I have gotten the infeed parallel length wise I cannot do the same width wise so they are not coplanar. Position B (attached drawing) is at it's highest point of adjustment and position D is at or near it's lowest. I spent a large part of this past weekend trying to correct this but no matter what I did, I could not. So apart from shimming the cutter head, this is what I am left with.
I have two questions:
- Aside from taking a slightly bigger bite from one side of a board to the other (more the wider the board gets), are there any other issues I would face when jointing a board that I might be overlooking?
- And, would you consider it worth the effort to shim the cutter head and then re-adjust BOTH tables?
As always, thanks for your input.
(The measurements in red are relative to the outfeed)
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