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I'm sure you WM guy get your can'ts fairly square but with varying amounts of pull down how do you adjust your stops to the blade which will determin how square the cant ends up. Unless sawing slow there will be pulldown on a WM. Steve
Quote from: ladylake on January 07, 2011, 07:04:32 AM I'm sure you WM guy get your can'ts fairly square but with varying amounts of pull down how do you adjust your stops to the blade which will determin how square the cant ends up. Unless sawing slow there will be pulldown on a WM. SteveGood golly you are only talking a 16th of an inch in two foot of distance. I know I was concerned about the same thing before I bought my mill. But I do got to say that after following all the steps to get the saw head leaved and square it holds that position very well. The bed area gets a good work out having logs rolled around on it and the stops being clamped against and this is the area on both the Cooks and Woodmizer where a cant can get out of square. Also with the four-post design of the Cooks, a rusty chain jumping a tooth on the sprocket will cause more problems then 1/16”.
I wouldn't call pull down a myth and common sence would say the more pressure apply to the band the more pull down.
I'm sure you can get nice square cants by taking your time with a nice steady feed rate. Steve
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