Main table flatness
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Re: Main table flatness
Love to see some close ups of that tape and the measurements. Tells us something about how they view the specs.
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algale wrote:Love to see some close ups of that tape and the measurements. Tells us something about how they view the specs.
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Re: Main table flatness
Thanks for the photos!
Gale's Law: The bigger the woodworking project, the less the mistakes show in any photo taken far enough away to show the entire project!
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Re: Main table flatness
Wonder how thick the tape is.
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Re: Main table flatness
Just a point of view, I have read here all this alignment stuff, flatness to thousands of an inch, an as I said knock your selves out. I am not being negative, I think just praticle here.
I have a piece of soft maple, jointed and glued with 2 pieces to make it 10" wide, planed and run through an oscillating head drum sander, both cabinet quality. To 25/32nds, flat and consistent as my calibers and granite plate sez. That was 2 weeks ago, sitting in the garage flat on a flat surface, waiting to be sanded for finish in stinking humid weather, it is no longer perfect in all those things.
Now it is just for a work bench drawer face, BUT I have to rip it to a thinner width after I make the drawer body and figure out the exact dimensions for the face. As I stated here and on and other table issues thread, I use a dedicated Jet cast iron top table saw, fence runs true, Table to blade with a quality square is 90* at the mid height of the blade fully raised.
I mean it is wood, what more do you need/want?? Rocket Science trajectories and Moon/Sun and other gravitational equations to get to Mars? Then think in .0000000001 degree of disinfection.
In my persise wood dimensions and I am a perfectionist, whiten a 64th and a 1\2* of angle, all is well, and on the angle on face jointing just flip them to get the perfect 90*s for glue up.
I mean what was the standard when they just had hand tools and hand saws?
Just make saw dust unless you are out of projects
I have a piece of soft maple, jointed and glued with 2 pieces to make it 10" wide, planed and run through an oscillating head drum sander, both cabinet quality. To 25/32nds, flat and consistent as my calibers and granite plate sez. That was 2 weeks ago, sitting in the garage flat on a flat surface, waiting to be sanded for finish in stinking humid weather, it is no longer perfect in all those things.
Now it is just for a work bench drawer face, BUT I have to rip it to a thinner width after I make the drawer body and figure out the exact dimensions for the face. As I stated here and on and other table issues thread, I use a dedicated Jet cast iron top table saw, fence runs true, Table to blade with a quality square is 90* at the mid height of the blade fully raised.
I mean it is wood, what more do you need/want?? Rocket Science trajectories and Moon/Sun and other gravitational equations to get to Mars? Then think in .0000000001 degree of disinfection.
In my persise wood dimensions and I am a perfectionist, whiten a 64th and a 1\2* of angle, all is well, and on the angle on face jointing just flip them to get the perfect 90*s for glue up.
I mean what was the standard when they just had hand tools and hand saws?
Just make saw dust unless you are out of projects
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Re: Main table flatness
My question remains. What is the SS specification for table top flatness? It would appear to be +- .015". That's +-1/64th of an inch.