12" jointer with crooked helical cutter head?


Jay9010

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I have been trying to straighten the tables to my new 12" jointer but I keep getting a crooked table.  I tried setting the tables to the top dead center but doing that makes the tables unable to line up straight over the knives.  At first I thought it could be the tables but my straight edge says the tables are fine.  I'm starting to think it's the cutter head or the cutter head housing.

 

Does anyone have any advice or experience with this?

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Agree that make and model will get you more help.  Too often folks get themselves in trouble by diving in with table adjustments on jointers when there is another root cause.  You will find various posts cautioning against table changes prior to good problem isolation.  We're past that so let's try make and model and go from there.  As stated, if new, the maker is your first call.

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