Well, I was hot to buy a new blade since my OEM blade was starting to burn the cuts I was making.
I bought a TK906, thinking it would be the same blade. It isn't. Today I finally set it up in the TS and did a test cut. It was a nice straight cut, but the blade left a lot of tooth marks in the wood. And, the cut on the right was burned!
So, I went to the trusty Search on this site, and determined my problem was probably a mis-aligned rip fence. I pulled out the manual, and on page 34 it tells you how to do the alignment. Except I had to disassemble the fence to "waller" out the alignment hole nearest the blade. Apparently I had knocked the fence out of alignment when I was cutting some 4X4's a week or so ago.
Once I had everything back together (including some white lithium grease sprayed in the rip fence lever. Didn't realize how sticky it had become.), the burning is gone, but the tooth marks remain.
Since I had to cut several miters in some maple, I decided to put the Ryobi blade on my CMS, just to see how and if it worked. Lemme tell you, I might leave it on there! Zero ripout, glass-smooth cuts, and the saw went through the stock like buttah!
I guess my point is the Ryobi blade is superior to the TK906 for a near-glueline rip, but the Freud blade is no slouch, either. And, I got it for a song ($28, delivered!)
I bought a TK906, thinking it would be the same blade. It isn't. Today I finally set it up in the TS and did a test cut. It was a nice straight cut, but the blade left a lot of tooth marks in the wood. And, the cut on the right was burned!
So, I went to the trusty Search on this site, and determined my problem was probably a mis-aligned rip fence. I pulled out the manual, and on page 34 it tells you how to do the alignment. Except I had to disassemble the fence to "waller" out the alignment hole nearest the blade. Apparently I had knocked the fence out of alignment when I was cutting some 4X4's a week or so ago.
Once I had everything back together (including some white lithium grease sprayed in the rip fence lever. Didn't realize how sticky it had become.), the burning is gone, but the tooth marks remain.
Since I had to cut several miters in some maple, I decided to put the Ryobi blade on my CMS, just to see how and if it worked. Lemme tell you, I might leave it on there! Zero ripout, glass-smooth cuts, and the saw went through the stock like buttah!
I guess my point is the Ryobi blade is superior to the TK906 for a near-glueline rip, but the Freud blade is no slouch, either. And, I got it for a song ($28, delivered!)
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