This is a metalworking project. I loaned my Dado blade to a friend for his new Rigid table saw and he needed an insert to fit the width of that dado so I made him this insert out of steel. This gave me a chance to use my new Metabo angle grinder for cutting the steel plate. The center slot was cut out in the milling machine! It is .100" thick
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Thanks for the nice comments. Hi Petey, No zero clearance insert. The orange one is all he got with it. I was hoping it was a lot thicker as I would have made the dado insert out of wood and made him a blank one that he could have just fed the blade up through for zero clearance!! It is about 1/2" wide and I think it is that way for doing angle cuts without the need of another insert.
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That looks like it will do quite nicely! I have to make one for my big tablesaw and was considering laminate flooring but seeing this really makes me want to do it right and use metal instead.
He used it today with the Dado blade and now has some 7' long pieces to cut out for a water bed he is making!!!!!!!!!!! It is a Craftsman wobble dado and he has it dialed in to 3/4" width!!
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No worry, John. It performs very well and he finished the job and now has more positive view of the wobble dado. It is a lot easier to dial in that a stacked dado that you have to take apart and add shims.
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Jim, I too have a wobble dado (mine's actually a double wobble blade) Craftsman and it has its place for some dado duties. Certainly less time consuming to set is up unless I have a list of all the chippers and shims from a previous project.
Hi BBY..I'd like to see a double wobble Dado?? Mine is also a Craftsman. I have two of them. One is set up on my Craftsman radial arm saw for production dado work!
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It's a Craftsman "Excaliber" FWIW. I can dig it out tomorrow and post a pick. Basically it's two blades that wobble half what a single one would have to making for a less convex dado bottom.
Hi BBY The one I have on my RAS cuts a pretty flat bottom. That is why I never had it sharpened. I'm afraid they'd screw it up!! I have not had to flatten the bottom of a dado with it yet!! I have used other brands and they'd leave a convex bottom all the time. I could not find a photo of the Craftsman "Excaliber" FWIW. . Just an explanation of it.
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