Mzdadoc Posted December 1, 2015 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 I believe it's been discussed here before but I can't find it. My Jet jointer has the dovetail sliding area for the tables and there's a way to adjust these so they are I think "coplanar". I've been avoiding it because I don't know what to do so any link or advise would be great.Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted December 1, 2015 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 I don't remember any dovetail way threads or posts on WTO. There's a thread or two on LJ... I'd Google it. And Grizzly has a video: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mzdadoc Posted December 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 Thank You very much!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom King Posted December 1, 2015 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 While beer can shims probably work, I like to buy cheap feeler gauges, and use whatever leaves you need to. You can try one, and after it's tightened down again, you know much more easily which leaf to use either thicker or thinner. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted December 1, 2015 Report Share Posted December 1, 2015 ==>While beer can shims probably workSomeone on WTO recommended that book to me, forget who?... It's pretty good, but liked Flower Arranging better... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedfmcm Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 What model Jet do you have? I've had the 8 inch with steel blades for about 9 months and love it. I did the Marc jointer co-planer test when i first got it and it wasn't perfect, but pretty close ~4 thousands off a the far front right of the table. Also following his advice, i did some test boards, and then when no discernible difference was discovered starting using it for projects and haven't seen any issues with the stock.I'm not sure how far off yours is, but if you just got it, might make sense to try some test boards to see if those tolerances actually have real world implications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mzdadoc Posted December 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 I've truly never checked it. No matter how I feed a board through it (6") I end up with a taper. I needed to know what to do before I get started testing and checking tolerances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estesbubba Posted December 4, 2015 Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 I could be off here, but I thought I read somewhere a properly tuned jointer will taper boards. If you keep running them through it will get worse. I would get 2 boards, joint 2 edges, then see how they line up. I would judge by that rather than taper because the other face goes through a planer and other side a table saw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mzdadoc Posted December 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 I could be off here, but I thought I read somewhere a properly tuned jointer will taper boards. If you keep running them through it will get worse. I would get 2 boards, joint 2 edges, then see how they line up. I would judge by that rather than taper because the other face goes through a planer and other side a table saw. Are you serious? That's possibly normal? I spent longer than I'll admit tapering the hell out of 2x4 trying different feed methods and a lot of swearing trying to figure out why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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