With the upper blade guides completed and before moving on to the lower guides I’ll do some more work on the table. Even though this is a temporary one it still needs to be sturdy and square in all directions with respect to the blade.
Using a Stanley roofing square to check across and down the table.
From the previous session we finished with the thrust bearing sliding arm, which also contains the sliding guide block from the top, which is now ready to drill and file a slotted hole through which will pass a 5/16th rod.
Need to drill out the pilot hole with a 6.5mm bit and the run through a 5/15th tap.
From the last session added a piece of MDF to the top of the bearing guide block.
Continued with the blade guides.
From the last session this is where I left things.
Needing some more 608 bearings went into Kmart for another skateboard and was pleasantly surprised, they had the larger 31” board on sale for $15.
Also got some Loctite Super Glue, have immediate need for that to bond the threaded rod with the lock knob that’s part of the clamp assembly of the sliding guide arm.
Also got some cheap quality hose clamps from the $2 shop to lock the wheel shafts. A bit peeved that they came around at ALDI not long ago and I didn’t grab two box’s – next time.
This is another interesting stage where we can start planning to setup a temporary table and begin construction of the upper blade guides.
Even with a temporary table I still need to know where the blade position will be so I can make the blade access cut on the table saw. So the first thing is to mount the blade, and make sure tension and alignment are correctly set.
With the basic blade guide arm setup and before we start making the actual blade guides we need to make ready a temporary table and put that aside for now.
Running out of off cuts so got down a 2400mm length from my stock of MG10 pine.
