John:
I’ve watched your video-read a couple of articles you wrote-consulted Care and Maintenance but still do not know how to tune my jointer. I am making the shop made “test bar” today out of mdf. I have consulted my owner’s manual which is no help for tuning. I have tried to get access to information through the Delta website but have had no success. I understand that I probably need to shim my jibs but do not know how to get access to them or once I get to them how exactly to shim-where the shims go. The outfeed seems to be at the same level as the cutters but I keep getting narrow ends??? Is there a publication on getting into the jibs-what am I missing here?
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The DJ-20 is a parallelogram machine, it doesn't have gibs, and it's tables are adjusted for parallel by a much different procedure, that wasn't covered in my book, than the shimming process used on jointers with dovetailed ways. The procedure is outlined somewhere on the Delta web site but it can be difficult to find. I will try to track it down and will post a message with the address in it tomorrow.
Jointers rarely go out of parallel, dull blades and having the outfeed table at the wrong height are the cause of 99 percent of jointer problems, so I would check those two first.
John White
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