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Jeff Stuart
3 July 2020 at 4:35 am #668111

Just curious, does the lateral adjuster swing to one side when the blade shifts? I’m guessing it does not, because why wouldn’t you simply adjust the adjuster and get on with it?

I have a No. 3 which had a cracked frog which I’m guessing flexed under load, doing somewhat the same thing you describe. The lateral adjuster did not move appreciably when the blade shifted. I would end up eventually with the adjuster hard over to port and the blade still out of wack. Resetting the blade on the frog fixed it, till it didn’t.

An uncracked frog fixed it.