Loosening the M10 screws on the support bracket, part #121, and pushing the sawframe over as far as it could go -- to the point where the blade was close to hitting the outfeed support nearest the front of the saw -- still did not permit the sawframe to drop down much more.? Pretty strange.
The only way I could get the blade to get anywhere near parallel to the outfeed "gap" was to place a .010" shim between the back of the support and sawframe.? Tightening the rear M10 bolt without it invariably caused the sawframe's horizontal alignment to rotate counter-clockwise (looking down at it), resulting in significant misalignment relative to the outfeed support.? This is after loosening both bolts, so it's impossible to say just how much the saw had been messed with at the factory to get it to cut anywhere close to square.? That's one of the frustrating aspects of these saws.
I had wondered if the pivot shaft had somehow bent, but I loosened the grub screw on the left side and rotated the shaft about 90 degrees and re-checked the alignment.? No change.
The pivot shaft can't move to the left or right because it's got a spring pin on the right of the bearing ears (preventing motion to the left), and it's captured by the grub screw on the left side, which would prevent motion to the right (due to the bearing ears on the left side).
Still baffled by what's going on....
-Mark
