Excellent video! You obviously have an engineer's mind! The techniques you show us here can be used for other alignment situations. Thanks! Much appreciated!

Great walkthrough. I inherited the same vintage X31featured in the video and have a hell of a time trying to align this machine, usually making things worse. Hopefully with the help of this tutorial and a Saturday afternoon (or two), I can get things all squared away.

Great machine

Damn dude! Good job figuring this thing out. I’ll be referencing this video a lot since I’m going to try to get a used one next week!

Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I have an old Roland x31 and have found it to be persnickety at best to get aligned. Once it's set, though, it's a pretty nice tool to have in a shop with limited space. Real motors... Unfortunately, support, care, and feeding are lacking, and it is sufficiently different to offer some challenges.

Nice walkthrough Elliott. I have found as you stressed, that the 2 adjustment bolts on the lock side of the joiner tables are tricky. I've had my x-31 for about 2 years now and overall am very happy with it. A great quality tool for my small space. Thanks for your effort.

Thank you very much for this walkthrough! I bought a green one several years ago, and I was not able to figure some things out (especially the rail adjustment). I will start now with building a adjustment help for the rails like the ones on your machine, and check all the other settings. Thank you very much!

Thanks for a very helpful video on alignment.

Thanks, this is very helpful. I don't think mine was ever aligned properly. It is from the late 80's. Got it from the wood working show around LA. I remember the guy put it in his pick up and drove it to me from I think if I remember correctly Laguna Beach area. he slid it done on a couple 2 X 12 , in my yard and left. It never never been as accurate as I wanted to be. I bought the bigger sliding table but the sliding table is the worst one as far as alignment.

Un grand merci pour votre vidéo excellente elle m’aidera dans mon réglage du rail 👍

GRACIAS POR HACERNOS PARTÍFIPES DE TUS CONOCIMIENTOS

Excellent video. I bought this machine in 1997 and it’s still producing quality projects. What is the cutter head on the jointer? Easy swap out?

Great video. Next time film in landscape...

Just picked one up. Took all day to get jointer planer knifes adjust watched this video about 10x's very helpful. What cutter head did you go with?

I bought my machine new in 1995 and never aligned it. It moved to a new house, to basement, back to garage with disasterous consequences due to incompetent movers, and there it sits. Robland documentation is incredibly weak on alignment. Your clear procedure should help me return to a finely tuned machine!

Hi Thanks for the great video....Were you able the change out the bladed cutter head for the helical head or did the machine come with the helical head? If you did change heads, how difficult was it?

Great video, thanks for posting it! Can you say if there's much of a difference between your machine and the older (green) X31's in relation to the adjustment mechanisms?

Thanks for the video. Do you have any problems with the weight on wood floors. Those combos are usually pretty heavy?

Super helpful video, thank you! :) Just wondering how you cut the profile for your zero clearance insert…? I’m struggling to work it out…!

That’s so much for this. I just picked up a x31 yesterday. Would you mind sharing the list of calibration tools you use? Many many thanks 🙏

Great video!!! My be picking up a green machine in the coming weeks!!! ...are you by chance in CA?

Omg, this is like old skool motorcycle maintenance. I am looking to buy a combination machine but seeing this I might just go for separate machines as they seem more solid and plain. I don't mind setting it up once, but this X31 seems that it needs a few rounds per year. What are your thoughts on that? Thank you for sharing your experience.

Hey! I own a 2016 NX 310 Pro. And the helical cutter head option has been available since 2017. You have a machine in excellent condition and with a helical head, but at the time of the release of this model, the helical did not exist, and did not exist for 15 years after the end of the production of x31. Where did the helical come from on the machine? Thank you if you answer.

I'm looking at picking up an x31. I'm pretty space constrained so for my setup I would need to move it for use. In your experience would moving the table around throw it out of alignment or would you think once adjusted it would keep alignment with rolling around on the casters

Hello Elliott. I just purchased one of these and have some questions. If you have time I would like to talk about a couple things that I can’t find information on. Since most of the parts where still in box’s, I don’t know where they go

Hi Elliot Are your planer table in level with the saw table? Mine (the GreenX31) has the planer table 5 mm below the planer table.

Thank you for the excellent video, I have one problem, maybe it doesn't matter.... Your saw table has 4 alignment nuts under the bolts, you're able to set the table saw level to the jointer. Mine has only 2 and had the ones closest to the jointer are fixed welded points (from the factory) the table rests on 2,4 mm too high for my jointer....... I cannot adjust low enough to get the saw table level with the jointer, I can only adjust upwards... As a experienced user, does it matter? I'm giving Robland a call too, see if they have any advice... It's pretty lame

What cutterhead you have in your jointer/planer? I have LX31 with standard knives in jointer/planer.

Hi there Elliott. Are you still using the 31 today? You gave me some great pointer which are not on my machine, which I will try to find among the loose items I got with the machine. And have you ever used the head insert on the router to be able to use overhand router cutter heads on the X31? It's the A 9995 combo with a screw where one can fit a 8 mm router bit, and an insert ring for on the cutterhead of the X31. Thanks for the effort. 🎈🍻 Cheers.

How often do you go through aligning all these surfaces?

Ah yes, I've used one of these Rob land machine's. Rob's you of your sanity trying to get them to work accurately. They are engineered around the same philosophy as Felder. Lots of jack screws that drift out of dial in. I tried, I really tried to get it to run accurately and reliably but unlike genuine high quality machinery, this stuff is garbage. Every time you tip up the Jointer tables to run the thicknesser it looses your dial in. The thicknesser bed tends to tip and give uneven thickness. It really is not worth wasting your money on these machines.