purpose of bandsaw table pin?

[mel]

what is the purpose of the pin in the side of the bandsaw table? Also, any sources for zero clearance inserts for 16" jet?

[Rumpty]

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.

[Bay Area Dave]

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:

[Dave Fleming]

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

[Tom Plamann]

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

[Michael Baglio]

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

Yer freind, Mikey

[bynot]

[Phisherman]

Keeps both sides of the table slot aligned.

[Larry Jaques]

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[Larry Jaques]

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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[Caractacus Potts]

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

[Michael Houghton]

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

[Lawrence A. Ramsey]