This is the Evolution Fury 5s this is a table saw that has a 10 inch blade or
255 millimetres. This machine can cut wood, metal or plastic all with the one
blade. I have to say that this is the entry-level machine. This machine is
aimed at DIYers and beginners. This is an ideal machine to start with
because it is very light, you can quite easily pick it up and move it around the
workshop very easily. Obviously before you use a machine like this it is
important to wear some safety glasses and some hearing protection. This is the
front of the machine, we have a stop bottom which is quite cleverly designed.
You have to lift it up to press the start button but to stop it you simply
press it and that will stop the machine. So that is quite a clever design and it
is very easy to switch off. Raising or lowering the blade is done by turning
this wheel turn it anti-clockwise it will lower the blade, turn it clockwise
it will raise the blade. If you want to turn the blade on to an angle you simply
undo this nut and then push in the wheel and then you can then turn that
until you get the blade to the desired angle, and then you can lock the nut.
That will then hold the blade in that position. To put it back simply undo the
nut push in the wheel, turn it back then lock off the nut again. The
machine comes with a rip fence that can be slid to the appropriate position. You
can simply slide the fence to the correct position or you can use the
built-in gauge. Once you get it to where you want it you can simply lock down
that lever. The machine also comes with a push stick which is very useful because
that will keep your fingers well away from the blade. Table saws can often
create a lot of dust but because this has a vacuum attachment on the top there
as well as underneath, it does tend to remove the majority of the wood dust when you are cutting.
A sliding mitre guide like that is supplied with the machine that simply
fits in the slots on the table there, you can then use that for doing cross
cuts or you can also use that for doing angle cuts. This part is actually for holding
down thin material that you're cutting. You may not need that so you can quite
easily move that when you're not using it. A machine like this can be used for
rip cutting or it can also be used for cross cutting especially if you use the
guide. The guide can also be moved from one side of the blade to the other
should you wish to do so. So this really is a good machine to say it is an
entry-level machine. But the actual guard can be a little bit tricky. If
you have it too low the material that you're cutting can get
jammed on it, and also at the back it does tend to catch the material and jam
the material if you don't set the blade high enough. I'll just give you an
example of why it jams. If I was to cut this piece of decking board which is about one inch thick
I would set the blade to just higher than the actual material but when you are
pushing that through as you can see it catches on the guard. So that means that
you do have to lift the actual blade higher than what you would do normally,
so the material can pass underneath the guard. That's not really a major issue
but I just thought I'll point it out to you.
You do have to lift the blade a little bit higher when you're cutting thin material
like this, or it does get jammed under the back there. I'll now give you a
demonstration of this machine cross cutting some pieces of decking.
As you can see it's cut them four pieces perfectly they are all exactly
the same size.
I'm now going to do a rip cut in some three by two timber.
You can see that this machine easily
copes with that and gives you a very good finish.
I'm now going to cut this piece of ten millimeter thick acrylic. So I'm just
going to lower the blade down slightly, just so the acrylic can pass
underneath the guide.
You can see that that has given us a very clean cut and there was a minimum of
swarf coming off there, the majority of it has gone in the vacuum cleaner.
I've now lowered the blade and I'm now going to cut this piece of 6mm thick
aluminium checker plate.
I have to say that it actually cut that for fun.
It's absolutely cold to the touch and it cut through that like it was
cutting through a piece of butter. This machine can cut mild steel up to a
maximum thickness of three millimetres. I don't have any 3mm
thick steel but I do have this 5mm thick steel plate.
So I'm just going to cut through this, obviously I'll take it very slowly and
see what kind of a job it does at cutting this.
So that is 5mm thick mild steel plate it's actually cold to the
touch and that has given us a very clean cut. If you need to make an angled cut
you can do that very easily using the mitre guide. I am going to put it on the 45 degree mark and lock that up.
That's enables you to cut material at an angle like so. For an entry-level
machine this table saw is absolutely superb. As I just demonstrated it will
cut through steel, aluminium plastic and wood very easily with the same blade.