Leveling a table saw

[Roger Warford]

Thanks for the great advice. I'll look for some shims at my local borg and will try to restrain my obsessive/compulsive disorder!

[James Suzda]

Thanks for the great advice. I'll look for some shims at my local borg and will try to restrain my obsessive/compulsive disorder!

You are going to buy shims when you have a new saw? Why don't you just make cutting some shims your first project for your new saw?

[Phil Thien]

To add to this, I've often noticed that old cabinet saws that sit directly on concrete floors have a rusty base bottom. Ones that sit on wood floors seem fine. So even if my floor was already perfectly flat and level, I'd still put something between the saw and the concrete.

[glenn bradley]

Thanks for the great advice. I'll look for some shims at my local borg and will try to restrain my obsessive/compulsive disorder!

Don't feel too anal. We've got a large collection of obsessive folks here (including me). Leveling you saw (or what it sits on) is not obsessive, you can rack the cabinet of a 300 pound-plus machine. Gravity is amazingly persuasive at those weights.