On 9/28/2024 11:40 AM, Jack Dinan wrote:
The blade makes an angle of almost 45 degrees with the table!
Not clear what you are trying to show.
Looks quite normal to me.
The moving head of the standard 4X6 saw is on a pivot at 45 degrees to the base. Has to be at that angle to allow for the blade to contact the cutting material long before the backside of the moving head does. If the head were square to the base, the head would come down and contact the cutting material and you wouldn't get anywhere.
The purpose of the 'blade guides' is to torque or twist the blade so that the short working section is now square to the base table and to your cutting stock. The guides may have fine adjustment to perfect the cut angle to square. If you remove the guides you completely defeat the design.
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Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA
