I have a Rigid 6" jointer and have discovered that the tables do not line up right. If I adjust the inboard (nearest the fence) of the infeed table to line up with the outfeed table the outboard (away from the fence) of the infeed table is lower than the outfeed table. If I line up the outboard infeed table with the outfeed table the inboard of the infeed table is higher than the outfeed table. I suppose that I would call it racked. There are no instructions in the manual on how to adjust the infeed table to solve this problem I worked with it for a while with no success. Is there any way to solve this problem short of having a machine shop remill the top of the infeed table?
I did some internet searches and found some articles about adjusting the jointer but none addressed this problem. Looked at some of the other brands on the web but could not find any help there either in the way of adjustments on their machines. I am thinking about ordering the video from woodcraft about tuning your jointer but I am not sure that it will address this problem either.
If you get out of the cheapie machines do the better ones allow for this type of adjustment or are they manufactured to higher standards so that everything is perfectly straight anyway? I might consider buying a better jointer as this one is really hard to get consistantly good results from as if one of the tables is square to the fence the other one is not and vise versa not to mention the proble with flat stock.
Thanks! Allen