the original inserts have quite a wide slot nets to allow for the table to tilt
I very seldom tilt the table and I would much prefer this to be closer to zero
clearance insert the replacement inserts used to be a bit more narrow
occasionally these things will pop out of here when they do that it'll come up
and hit the saw blade and they get chewed up pretty bad and the only thing
keeping them indexed is this little plastic pin indexes in this hole and in
this slot these are not terribly expensive but that's all that's
available so we're gonna make a zero clearance insert
after laminating the eighth inch Baltic birch and then sand it to diameter on
the circle sanding jig and sneak up on that diameter until that fits in there
nice and snug that's too thick for the recess on the table so we'll have to
sand that down until it's flush with the top of the table
I put the disc in the recess of the table tilted the table so I could mark
those indexing hole from underneath
and we use that to locate this side
the blade rides a little bit to one side of this slot I used bamboo skewers for
the pins and you need to lay that out so when you cut the slot in this the blade
is fairly well centered I used bamboo pins to index into the holes and the
slot on the table you need to cut a slot at right angles to these two pins you'll
need to figure out where that needs to be on your bandsaw by holding the pins
against a piece of wood you can line that up for the cut
different sized blades will fit in here differently and you'll have to fine-tune
that slot accordingly it's not exactly a zero clearance insert but it should be a
lot better than this wide thing I've been getting quite a few small pieces
dropped down inside here and occasionally they'll get down with the
bottom wheel ricochet around one got underneath the rib belt and the drive
pulley tore up the email so that's my justification for this project these are
not difficult to make but it does take a number of setups so you might as well
make more than one while you're at it before I cut the slots I lightly sanded
these gave them a couple of coats of spray lacquer sanding in between so now
I can put some wax on here and this will be slippery
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