PALS™ Finesses Contractor Saw Alignment – A Product Review
By Jack Barnhill On June 2nd, 2010Background
My current table saw, a Delta contractor saw, is my second. The first one was a Ryobi portable table saw. The user manuals from both manufactures suggested aligning the blade to the miter slot by pounding on the trunnion with a hammer or board or by prying on it with a board. I tried these methods because I was a newbie and didn’t know of a better way. While these methods produced barely adequate results, I was never really satisfied with it being close but not quite precisely aligned so I purchased a Contractor Saw Precision Alignment & Locking System (PALS™) almost two years ago.
Although I was not fully satisfied with the blade alignment on my table saw, I shied away from the task of installing the PALS™ kit because I thought it would be tedious and time consuming. After all, my saw wasn’t way out of alignment. It was close enough to make reasonably accurate cuts.
However, those extra blade marks on the sides of my rip cuts were annoying and time consuming to clean up so before starting to build my materials cart, I decided to fix the problem and install the PALS™ kit. I went on to do a proper alignment of my saw.
