Sawstop Tips From the User's Perspective #2: The Yellow Screw, Oh That Yellow Screw
So I have been switching back and forth between the dado blade and combination blade a lot lately on my PCS. I think these changeovers are a minor pain on all saws, but not much more work with a sawstop. Just swap the brake cartridge for a dado cartridge, and perhaps adjust the distance between the blade and brake. That is what the yellow Allen head bolt under the ZCI does. Sawstop includes a slick little gauge for testing the appropriate distance between the blade and brake. The Allen wrench isn’t the best, because it needs to be used in the vertical orientation. This leaves the short end of the wrench to turn, which doesn’t offer much leverage. I replaced it with an ...
