Shop Improvements #2: Why your SawStop riving knife still isnt aligned
My SawStop PCS tablesaw has a pretty fussy riving knife adjustment system. You have to crank the blade up to check alignment and then crank it back down to be able to adjust the bolts and of course every time you tighten the bolts you move the knife out of alignment. So back and forth you go crank, loosen, align, crank, tighten, crank, loosen, align,... Then once you’ve got it just right, and you crank the blade back down to a reasonable height to cut some 3/4” plywood the knife seems out of alignment. What gives!? Turns out that the knife holder isn’t exactly tilted in the same plane as the saw blade. It’s off by the slightest half of a degree. That doesn’t sound like much, but when t...
