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[Beechwood Chip]

I just remembered a tip I heard that I thought I'd pass along.

I was helping a friend set up his new table saw that he got for DIY projects. I was helping him align the blade, and I didn't have my full complement of gizmos and gadgets with me. We just wanted to get it close enough to cut flooring, and I didn't want to drive back to my place to get my feeler gauges.

I found a book and grabbed 200 pages from the middle. I measured them and the 200 pages were about 5/16" thick. That mean that each page was about 1.56 thousandths of an inch. I checked that the blade was less than two pages out of allignment, and said, "you're good to go!"

I learned this trick from Car-Talk, when they needed to adjust the spark gap without feeler gauges. But it works for power tools, too.