Guys, I need your help. I have a fairly new table saw and I took the blade (WWII) off over the weekend for the first time so I could use a dado set. While I had it off, I cleaned it. After I re-installed it, I quickly double-checked the blade-to-miter-slot parallelism and it is still about .001" at random points all around the outside of the blade. Good to go, so I thought.
My first cut following the blade re-installation was a short piece of 4/4 ash, and the cut was horrible - saw marks and burning all along the cut. It had never done this before. So I spent all of this evening checking and tweaking everything I could think of:
- I realigned the fence to the blade, I think, so it kicks out about .003" at the back of the saw.
- The riving knife had never been completely aligned with the blade, so I took it all apart (I will never do that again) and shimmed it with some tape. Now I believe the knife is entirely within the saw kerf.
- I inspected all 4 sides of every tooth, and scraped away any remaining gunk with a small piece of scrap wood.
After all this, my cuts are still looking like this:
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Most of the saw marks are gone, but it's still burning. At no point did I stop moving the board through the blade; I used as consistent a feed rate as I could manage. I can't imagine that it needs sharpening already - it has cut probably less than 200 feet of wood so far, mostly less than 4/4.
Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated. I have to make the Big Cut down the middle of my crosscut sled and I do not want to attempt it with this issue. I'm at the end of my wits and ideas.
Thanks!
Mike