Dw788 question

[Smitty]

I read a review on the 788 that said the depth of cut is adjustable from 3/4” to 2”. That’s not right, right?  And what could that mean? The arms only have a finite up and down movement  

frankly, I’m a bit perturbed with it. The forward and back movement of the blade is so much that when i hang on the back of the blade to make a sharp turn it vibrates the workpiece a lot. Does anyone else see this in their 788?  Can i tweek something?

[JTTHECLOCKMAN]

You are talking about stroke length of 3/4" and blade cutting depth of 2" when using a 5" blade. Now I never tried this but I bet it is possible if you took a fret saw blade and cut to any size you can increase the depth of cut. Say make the blade 6" Probably get another 3/4" cutting depth.

Now from what I am gathering of your second question or problem is that the blade travel is not true up and down. This has been talked about here before and what you need to do is check the back of the blade and measure at its top stroke and at it bottom stroke. if they are not the same then an adjustment needs to happen. I had shown here that I raised back of my  table to compensate for this. Others will chime in as to how they handled it. Good luck.

 

[NC Scroller]

I cut a lot of compound projects.  While they may claim cutting depth of 2 inches I have found 1 1/2 - 1 5/8 inches is really the max I can work effectively. 

[Sycamore67]

I agree that cutting anything much over 1-1/2" gets really difficult.  With a 3/4" stroke   and   1-1/2' thick piece getting sawdust out of the kerf gets very difficult.