I’ve owned my new $3000 SawStop for almost a week now and it has yet to be powered up. Why? Because so many little issues with it. But the major thing is the alignment of the blade with the top. It arrived .008 out of alignment, which is 4x what’s acceptable. Aligning the top on the saw looks like it’s well thought-out, it’s different than any other saw I’ve seen. But the saw is whacky in ways I’ve never seen before. If you tilt the blade on any saw tight against the stop it will cause some misalignment, but the SawStop seems particularly sensitive to this. Also, the blade alignment can vary by as much as .002 depending on which direction you came from. For example, I was checking the alignment at 30°. I found that if I went from 20° to 30°, it out by .001. But if I went up to 40° and then back down to 30°, it was now out by .003! So now I have to make sure I adjust it so it’s -.001 from one direction and +.001 in the other.

Hopefully with a few more hours work I can actually turn it on …