I was messing around with my relatively new and unused dial indicator today to verify alignment of my table saw and came up with a few questions. I DAGS and got some answers to my questions, but was wanting to see if anyone could give me some more direct answers to the questions below.
Here are the questions.
1) I have the Grizzly Dial indicator. I haven't figured out a good way to mount it to the miter guage or any other fixture to use it for checking the blade alignment vs the miter slot. What I have done so far is to clamp the big bulky assmebly that comes with it to the miter guage and to it that way... but that puts the indicator at an awkward angle that is hard to read... and you can't get it closer than about a half inch to the table. Anyone have any pictures as to how they mount their dial indicator to something for checking alignment? I'm hoping to not have to go buy a tool specifically for checking alignment. I planned on building a jig for it, but figured I'd check here to see if anyone can show me one that they built first.2) When testing the blade alignment, tooth at front vs same tooth at back I get just over .001" out of line which is good enough for me. But, if I slide the guage along the blade the measuer varies in a range a little over .002". Is that normal for a sawblade to have that much variation in thickness or do you think it is the miter slot? I have a Forrest WWII that cuts great, FWIW.
Thanks, Mike W.