Magnetic shims

Walt,

May I suggest that the magnetic shims won't help a bit. I have the Freud and magnetized the shims myself thinking that this would help. Nope - they still get caught and with them magnetized it's even harder to remove them. It's only a problem with the ones that are less than .010".

My little trick is to use 3 pieces of tape:

Masking tape = .004" Packing tape = .003" Scotch tape = .002"

Goes on quickly, stays put and easy to come off - no more crinkled shims.

Bob S.

Hmm, maybe we are all too spoiled and expect instant gratification!?!

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Sorry, posted that to the wrong thread. No offense intended.

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Thanks for the tip. I would be a little concerned with compression though (at least for the masking tape). It seems like it would be quite easy to tighten things down a bit much and turn .004 into .003.

I guess once you have your width set and the blade tightened down it shouldn't matter though. Just a little bit of variability during setup but we should be measuring the cut, not the stack width. :)

I'll prolly give the shims a try though ($10 from Grizzly, no biggie) just to satisfy my curiousity.

walt

Replace all the OLD smoke alarms with modern ones that function like you want

Of course, you may have to rewire the alarm system as well to get this "feature"

John