purpose of bandsaw table pin?

Insert a screw driver under the pin (in the slot) tap the end with a hammer, the pin will come out so you can replace the blade.

keeps the table halves aligned. Notice if you remove the pin, you MIGHT feel a ridge when sliding wood across the table, at the junction. The cast top may or may not exhibit misalignment with the pin out, but that's why it's there.

dave

mel wrote:

Aligns the split cast iron table top. As others have said, no big deal to remove and replace for blade changing. Some pins are attached with a short length of light chain so they don't 'walk away'. Folla? Tales of a Boatbuilder Apprentice

Mel

It's there to keep the two sides of the table on the same plane. Without it, one or the other could rise up and put the table off flat.

Tom Plamann

I likes the new upper left photo there, Tom. I was askeered of the other one.

Yer freind, Mikey

Keeps both sides of the table slot aligned.

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 03:34:13 GMT, Michael Baglio brought forth from the murky depths:

Heeeeeeey! Tom got more than his meds refilled. Boosterspice?

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On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 04:00:03 GMT, Phisherman brought forth from the murky depths:

...so the table stays flat on that side.

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THAT explains why I always thought of Larrykins as "Hindmost".

Roll your own? I made a reduced clearance insert for my 14" Grizzly.

I cut a disk using the existing insert along with just enough slot. The wood was considerably thicker than the old insert (which was a bit short of the table surface as it happens), so I put it in upside down and worked the rim down to the right thickness. Works like a champ.

yours Michael