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It could be that the blade and the rip fence are not parallel to each other. If you look in the owners manual it will show you how to "true up" the saw. It is not uncommon for a new table saw to be out of alignment right out of the box. Hope this helps

Your richt on that. It seems that if you put marine on it the price goes up but if you put aircraft on it the price goes up a couple more times. If you try to get it from somewhere else and you tell them it's for an airplane they won't even talk to you anymore. Scared of a lawsuit you know.

A stipple roller or epoxy layup roller is a soft, spongy, bumpy roller that helps in working out air bubbles but won't lift the cloth. We get them from an aircraft supply house called Aircraft Spruce and Specialty co. Their web site is aircraftspruce.com. They have all kinds of stuff for fiberglass ...

when my Dad and I were building our homebuilt aircraft we would use paper towels to soak up the excess resin. You just have to remember to remove the paper towels before the epoxy sets up. We would also use a stipple roller to draw the excess epoxy from the first layer up in to the second one.

I'm about to start on the OB-19 and was wondering if there was anything I needed to know before I started. Any tricky areas I needed to look for, anything other builders wish they knew before they started or would change now if they could? Just looking for your knowledge and wisdom