Posted elswhere but thought I would ask here as well.

I’ve finally started putting my Sawstop through its paces and have noticed some quirks. Wondering if anyone else has had these things come up and I noticed there are some other owners on the board.

Does your saw lock when beveled other than at 45? The handwheel locks but even when the wheel is locked there is some play due to gear lash that can’t be adjusted out on my saw. So unless its against a stop the arbor will still move a hair, haven’t put the dial on it but somewhere shy of 1/32″. I know I can use a clamp on the arbor so when I need to do staves this may be the fix.

Also I’ve noticed that at 90 degrees blade parallelism to the miter slots changes depending on blade height, again haven’t put the dial on it but its noticeable. Haven’t checked when beveled but would expect the same.

I’ve been doing rough work putting my shop back together so I haven’t gotten too involved with the parallelism issue but want to get it dialed in as I’ll be doing careful work again soon.

I’ll be in touch with Sawstop regarding the parallelism but wanted to know if this is something anyone else had checked on theirs.

Basically if you set the blade so its parallel to the miter slots for a 3/4″ cut and then raise it for a 3″ cut do you still have the same parallelism to the miter slots?

Lastly any odd noises when you drop the blade height? Like after a few rips and you unlock the height handwheel and spin it down to get the blade under the table. Not a grinding or scraping but the noise does seem to sound like its coming from the height adjusting threads. Been trying to track down some dry moly lube spray to use but so far no luck. Handwheels move smoothly and there is no feeling of any binding so I haven’t been too concerned but it does seem odd for there to be any noise. Haven’t noticed it when raising the blade.

Thanks for any insight.