Tablesaw for shop ?

[bruegf]

Finally discovered that infeed table had warped quite badly since the previous use.  It's now junk.

I'm curious what brand of jointer this happened to.

That's really quite unusual because iron castings such as jointer beds or lathe beds are usually aged for 6-12 months to eliminate the residual stresses in the casting. It's best to leave them outdoors so thay can "grow & shrink" on their own with the temperature changes.

It's the same reason that guys look for good used car engines (100,000+ miles) to build up for drag/motor sports racing.

I am with Cheese on this.

Milling machines usualy have the ways scraped to make them orthogonal, but rarely move after the residual stresses are out.

I cannot imagine the infeed and outfeed warping outright, but I could imagine something ahppening where they attach. It does seem odd.

It's definitely the table itself that warped, there's a pronounced dip in the surface a few inches from the cutter end of the infeed table.

 

[tjbier]

  Well we ended up with the Sawstop! It's the 1.75hp that we will have wired for 220.  It went together very nice. I will make a 2x4 base for it to sit on so its off the concrete and get it a little higher.
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[tjbier]

  Also the Laguna bandsaw, I can't wait for this to get wired also!  The box had 2 fork holes in it but there was no damage anywhere we could see.

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