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Surface Planer ( Jointer ) Tables Not Dead Flat

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I bought a Oneway Multi Gauge, dial indicator, to precisely set the height of my jointer knives.
Have a Metabo HC260 planer/thicknesser with aluminium tables. When using the dial indicator zeroing it in I do not get a uniform reading across the width of the outfeed table.
I have a discrepancy of 001 inch, 0.025mm, 200th of a mm from one side compared to the other. Am using a Veritas precision straightedge checking the width of the tables, and diagonally across both. I can see very minute gaps, less than paper thin.
I understand that this discrepency is not critical.
That said, setting up the height of the planer knives relative to the outfeed table. As I say on the outfeed table close to the cutter block using the dial gauge zeroed in I set the 0 reading but at the other side I get 001" out, so should I adjust one end of the knives height to make up for this, factor that 0.001" into my setting tolerance?
Cheers.
 
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