Let me apologize up front if this subject is posted twice. I use Google Groups to view newsgroups and I thought I sent something earlier today but I still don't see it after about 7-8 hours.
I did someting really, REALLY stupid yesterday. I wanted to trim off
1/8" of s piece of 3/4" plywood that was 28"x32". My brain told me to trim it with a striaght edge and a circular saw but the doofus in me won out.I have a smaller table saw (Delta 36-600) because I have a smaller shop and I put a nice Forrest Woodworker thin kerf blade in it. Since the table is so small, the IDIOT in me tried to trim the 1/8" between the blade and the fence. Of course it was a STUPID idea and I noticed a bunch of paint was worn off on the fence behind the blade when I was done---and I still ended up with a piece of wood that was crooked as a dog's hind leg. Upon closer inspection, I noticed a chunk of the fence was taken out as well.
It is probably in my head but it seemed like some scrap wood I pushed thru was "sticking" in the spot that was worn. I may have done something really stupid in that I hit the spot with a piece of emery cloth to smooth out the gash. It seemed like that helped but it is probably in my head.
I tried a bunch of other pieces of scrap and I think I was pushing them thru too slowly because I got burn spots on most of the pieces because I was trying to see if the gouge was hurting me. When I tried to take an inch off a scrap 2x4, I pushed the wood thru quickly like I am supposed to do and it came out okay. I think there was ridges but it may be in my head.
I have two quesitons:
- How do I tell if the blade is screwed? I can't see anything that stands out but I may not know what I am looking at.
- Is my fence hosed? SHould I screw a piece of melamine on it to make it smooth again?