If you are just cutting plywood or other engineered products they should be stable and not pinching the blade. Personally I'd be comfortable cutting without it for plywood. Not solid wood, I still think it's imperative to use for cutting lumber.
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Riving knife is a non negotiable for me. But I got it working perfect. Sanding took maybe an hour. The aligning it took at least another. That is so tedious.
Anyways made some better clamp storage. The cleet in the middle is a screw up on measurement. But since it's glued in place it isn't ever coming off.
Finally was able to snag a cast iron table saw off FB. A Ridgid R4512 for $200. Getting downstairs was a nightmare. We ended up taking it completely apart. Now just need to figure out how mount that stupid expensive Harvey fence I bought a few months ago. Wasn't a great financial decision.
Hoping to get 500 or so for my Bosch 4100XC. With the feed extensions itwas around 900. But we'll see.
Hoping to get 500 or so for my Bosch 4100XC. With the feed extensions itwas around 900. But we'll see.
I miss having some place I could work on things like wood or cars or what ever the last place i had was with my Native girlfriend early 1990s who owned half a house with her mom ,they had a garage full of things that probably where there since they first had the house built in the late 1970s, so I cleared out everything organized it had a place to work the issue was that if I didn't keep having things to work on say for a week maybe longer the garage would get filled with more things that Her mother got for cheep, and it ended up being the storage garage so doing something simple like oil change that should take no more than 30 minutes ( getting ramps out some tools) it would take over an hour before I could even start because I had to move everything out of the way lol
Bought a Ridgid R4512 table saw last year for $200 off FB. Had to take it apart in order to get it in to basement. Didn't have much motivation to work on it / basement shop. So it just sat there for the last 8-9 months. Been cleaning up the basement lately and time to get the workshop back up.
Got it mostly back together. Had to design a couple simple strain relief grommets for the power wire as i broke the originals taking it apart. Tonight I tackled the rusty top.
CLR, SOS pad, and elbow grease. And then some finishing paste wax to protect it after cleaning. Pretty happy with it.
Just over a year ago I rather stupidly bought a Harvey Big Eye fence system. Hoping it would work w/ either the Bosch or the Dewalt jobsite saws I have. It did not. It required a cast iron top. Tomorrow I'm going to see about installing it.
Got it mostly back together. Had to design a couple simple strain relief grommets for the power wire as i broke the originals taking it apart. Tonight I tackled the rusty top.
CLR, SOS pad, and elbow grease. And then some finishing paste wax to protect it after cleaning. Pretty happy with it.
Just over a year ago I rather stupidly bought a Harvey Big Eye fence system. Hoping it would work w/ either the Bosch or the Dewalt jobsite saws I have. It did not. It required a cast iron top. Tomorrow I'm going to see about installing it.
Looks great! I hope your Big Eye fence fits, they look like amazing kit.
Big Eye is mostly on. Mostly was pretty easy to install. Had to make drill out threads so I'll never be able to reinstall the original fence, which is fine by me. It is probably too large for my space but nothing I can do about it.
This piece tho..... I don't believe I've been so mad in years. It uses 2 T-bolts that slide in to the rails. Then you are supposed to tighten the nuts to lock the bar in place. These nuts are part of the 'lead screws', which are reverse threaded. The whole bar would bind as soon as I install it. Try to loosen the nut and since it was reverse threaded, the damn t-bolts would also unscrew. The bar is supposed to be installed closer to the extension plate but it was impossible. I damaged the hell out of the rails as it bound so bad I had to cut the t-bolts. TWICE! The bar is slightly warped. No idea if that was the cause or not.
Pic of one of the areas where I damaged the rails. So mad.
Still have a bit of work today. Bit of calibration. Need to figure out mounting the power switch as it mounted to original rails. Thinking hard of using the metric strip on the saw. I just can't wrap my head around imperial. It makes no sense. I will have to eventually buy new measurement tools. But the few hundred is worth it for my sanity and preventing wasted material from bad cuts.
Initial thoughts are fence does seem really nice. The fine adjustment knob can can move the fence with one finger. And considering it weights probably 30-40 pounds, pretty impressive. The fence doesn't budge even a fraction when locking either.
This piece tho..... I don't believe I've been so mad in years. It uses 2 T-bolts that slide in to the rails. Then you are supposed to tighten the nuts to lock the bar in place. These nuts are part of the 'lead screws', which are reverse threaded. The whole bar would bind as soon as I install it. Try to loosen the nut and since it was reverse threaded, the damn t-bolts would also unscrew. The bar is supposed to be installed closer to the extension plate but it was impossible. I damaged the hell out of the rails as it bound so bad I had to cut the t-bolts. TWICE! The bar is slightly warped. No idea if that was the cause or not.
Pic of one of the areas where I damaged the rails. So mad.
Still have a bit of work today. Bit of calibration. Need to figure out mounting the power switch as it mounted to original rails. Thinking hard of using the metric strip on the saw. I just can't wrap my head around imperial. It makes no sense. I will have to eventually buy new measurement tools. But the few hundred is worth it for my sanity and preventing wasted material from bad cuts.
Initial thoughts are fence does seem really nice. The fine adjustment knob can can move the fence with one finger. And considering it weights probably 30-40 pounds, pretty impressive. The fence doesn't budge even a fraction when locking either.
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This Vevor dust separator is a unit. For the $141 seems like one fine deal.
Couple 3d printed adapters so I could hook up 4" hose to the dust extractor.
Compared to the old amazon special I was using.
Adapter to hook up to Cen-Tec hose.
Up next is to design something for the table saw 4" hose. Maybe something with magnets in it, so I can hang the hose from the table saw when its not in use.
Not sure I like the hose I bought. It's from KMS. $80 for '20 ft'. They had none on display. They had another set for 10ft for $50. I asked the guy the difference. All he told me one has brass coils, while the one I bought had 'plastic'. The one I bought is steel not plastic. But I think the difference is how much the hose wants to coil upon itself. This stuff wants to contract big time. The above separator came with a 2" hose w/ the brass coils. And it is so much nicer. It doesn't contract upon itself at all.
Couple 3d printed adapters so I could hook up 4" hose to the dust extractor.
Compared to the old amazon special I was using.
Adapter to hook up to Cen-Tec hose.
Up next is to design something for the table saw 4" hose. Maybe something with magnets in it, so I can hang the hose from the table saw when its not in use.
Not sure I like the hose I bought. It's from KMS. $80 for '20 ft'. They had none on display. They had another set for 10ft for $50. I asked the guy the difference. All he told me one has brass coils, while the one I bought had 'plastic'. The one I bought is steel not plastic. But I think the difference is how much the hose wants to coil upon itself. This stuff wants to contract big time. The above separator came with a 2" hose w/ the brass coils. And it is so much nicer. It doesn't contract upon itself at all.
That's a nice job on the cleanup, I had debated on that one or the R4515 (10" portable) when I was shopping and while that one is supposed to be an absolute workhorse, knowing I'd have to bring it downstairs and then back up to the garage a couple times steered me to the portable.
If sawstop wasn't around I'd say I'd pick up the newer version of yours whenever I replace my 4515, but if I ever upgrade it'll probably be one with a stop and built in router table.
Running in to an issue w/ the dust separator / extractor. When I try to use the reducer pictured above to use the smaller hose, the pressure causes the hose to between the extractor and separator to constrict. So much so its knocking the damn things over. I can't figure out a way to fix it.
EDIT: Will finish setting up / calibrating table saw. Seal off some of the holes in the cabinet. And see how this setup works with it. If it works well, then I'll just swap over to the small separator when I need to use the smaller hose. If it doesn't work well, then I guess I'll have to buy a dust collector.
EDIT: Will finish setting up / calibrating table saw. Seal off some of the holes in the cabinet. And see how this setup works with it. If it works well, then I'll just swap over to the small separator when I need to use the smaller hose. If it doesn't work well, then I guess I'll have to buy a dust collector.
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