5/16" Stud PALS

PALS Precision Alignment and Locking System for Contractor Style Table Saw Alignment I never had any luck aligning the blade and fence to the miter slot of my old Craftsman table saw. Banging on the trunnions with a mallet was a very imprecise process that required more luck than skill to align the blade parallel to the miter slot. Several years ago I replaced my trusty Craftsman saw with a Delta 36-441 contractor saw. I used that saw for years, but recently realized that I needed to re-align the blade and fence to the miter slot. I looked for solutions on YouTube and found a great video by Stumpy Nubs that provided an excellent tutorial on how to do the alignment on both cabinet and contractor saws. Stumpy recommended using these alignment clips with contractor saws that don't have adjustment screws to facilitate the process. They worked a treat. I recommend that you first watch Stumpy's video and then watch the video that appears on the Amazon page for this product. They were both a big help for me. Here are two tips for using the clips. - The non-nylok nuts included with the kit require a 12mm wrench. I replaced them with SAE 1/2" nuts. - You may find that you have to bind the standard nut and the nylok nut together on each threaded stud so you can tighten or loosen the studs that you install on the underside of your table's top. I needed to do that because my moderate-strength Locktite was not holding the stud tight in the tablesaw top even after letting it set for a day. . A thin 1/2" open end wrench is very handy when working with the two nuts on the studs. - Pay attention to Stumpy's advice about loosening the two trunnion nuts in the front of your saw. One should be finger-tight and the other one should be slightly tighter so as to provide some friction when shifting the trunnions with the clips in this kit - Pay attention to the advice in the Amazon video about slowly alternating the tightening of the four trunnion nuts after you have the blade aligned with the miter slot.

This package fit my old Delta table saw. Installation was fairly simple and it worked great for reducing the back and forth normally required for blade alignment. So nice to be able to turn a screw to tweak the alignment rather than the old "hit it with a mallet and hope for the best" approach. This type of setup should come standard on all table saws. Just happy I found this.

This is a great system for bringing an otherwise dead contractor's saw back to a life of precision cutting. Fairly easy to install and use. There's a great video by the manufacturer on YouTube showing how to use it. Size of the bolts on your saw is critical, so make sure you know before you order.

Works great. Used it on my craftsman 113 contractors saw. Unfortunately the size I ordered didn’t fit, but all I had to do was drill out the holes and buy new threaded rod and lock nuts and it was solid. Makes trunnion adjustment way easier.

My saw (25 y.o. Delta 34-441) has been down since December because I could not re-align my table saw. After SO many attempts at aligning it with a mallet and constant trunion movements when retightening bolts, I gave up out of frustration and used my bandsaw. I discovered this alignment kit, bought it, and in 30 minutes (I'm slow) my saw was perfectly aligned, locked in place so it wouldn't move again, and humming. Couldn't believe it. Best $22.00 I ever spent. Impressively engineered because it is so simple, to work so well. Whoever invented that is laughing all the way to the bank. Bud G.

I found this item first on a Youtube video, which is what I used to install it. Whatever the manufacturer recommends to align the blade to the miter slot cannot be any easier than using this was. Of course I already had a dial gauge that told me that the blade was miss-aligned by 35 one-thousandths. I guess you can use your table saw in blind ignorance of how good it can be, or you can align your blade properly. You will definitely see the difference when you attempt to cut a thick piece of hardwood. No more binding, burning, or tripping circuit breakers!

I was very disappointed to find out that this product is not manufactured in America. The brackets could be a little beefier and I was missing the nylock nuts. The product is easy enough to install, but my saw moved out of tolerance after I set it to 45* and then back to 90*.

The PALS system worked well to align my old Delta contractor saw trunnion with the miter slots. It made a difficult task tolerable. The specific glitch with my setup is my Delta saw (built circa 1980) uses metric threads, so the SAE version of PALS I ordered of course did not thread into the trunnions. A trip to the hardware store for 1 1/4 long metric bolts solved that issue. Who knew Delta was making their saws overseas back in the '80's? Moral of the story is to pull a trunnion bolt first to check the threads before ordering the PALS set. For anyone using Delta, be advised that the trunnion is front mounted with four bolts, not just the two that are relatively easily accessible. By lowering the motor (sans blade of course) and then changing the bevel angle from 90 to 45 degrees the two trunnion bolts toward the front of the saw can be accessed. Be prepared to repeat the adjustments several times to get the blade parallel to the miter slots even with the PALS system.