Well, so far this homemade table saw
is pretty much functional.
But, I still need some kind of stand for it.
My stand is just a plywood box
made with plywood from some shipping crates.
And I cut notches to fit around the mechanism of the saw.
And glued some rails along the corners
for screwing it together.
These just assemble, like so.
The slot, on the front, is just big
enough to get my hand in there
to turn the depth lock knob.
When I'm making cuts with this saw
the blade throws the sawdust thruogh the table
and comes out here.
And I don't want it to come out the slot for the handle, here.
So, I made this aluminum shield, or deflector,
that goes in here. And that should force
the sawdust to go this way and stay inside the case.
It just barely fits between the case
and the shims, here.
I haven't made a table saw insert for this saw,
so there's only this narrow slot, which means
the blade needs to come up, like this,
with the depth lock mechanism disengaged.
The sawdust design for 7 1/4 inch blades,
which fit inside this guard.
But since I got rid of this guard,
I have room for a much larger blade,
a 8 1/4 inch blade,
and that just barely fits inside the other guard.
So, with the 8 1/4 inch blade on the saw,
I now get 68 millimeters depth of cut,
or about 2 5/8th of an inch.
Now, let's check the alignment.
I have those rulers coming apart
by about 2 millimeters
over a 40 centimeter distance.
So, I should fix that.
And the blade tilt is
adequately square, for now.
On the saw, the mounting screws
are about 16 centimeters apart.
So, if we have 2 millimeters over 40 centimeters,
then over 16 centimeters we have about .8 millimeters.
And I made these 2 shims that comes about that amount,
from this lid here,
and some polyethelyne, and I need to put those under here.
Now, if I don't want to throw out the vertical alignment,
I need to add about half as much shim amount in here,
because that's halfway front to back.
All right. That looks like it's aligned, as best as I can tell.
And the tilt,
if anything,
it might be leaning this way a little bit,
but it's hard to tell so I'll leave it as it is.
Those came out quite nice.
And we have
a little bit of sawdust that landed in front of the saw.
Looking OK on the inside.
Let's see, we have a little bit of dust here.
But these are actually fake slots.
There's no air going through here, so...
I'm hoping that won't clog up.
And, looking inside the case,
we have lots of sawdust everywhere,
except for right here,
and I think that's because the shield kept
throwing the dust straight on here
and it kept bouncing away.
There's only one thing left to do and that is
to paint the saw.
Sometimes I just want to be able to pick up the saw
and move it without the top coming off.
So, to lock it in place, I added these pins,
which are actually just nails,
and those hold it onto the top.
I glued on some extra blocks for the nails
to have a place to go into.
And they're angled a little bit so that gravity
will pull the nail in, as oppossed to out.
And on the back, on mine,
I have a reinforcing rail in here,
so I had to go through both of those.
And the stand actually fits in between these two.
So, this saw came out a bit heavier
than my other homemade table saw, but
that's beneficial because it means it stays in place
much better.
And, if you're gonna sit on your saw,
make sure to lower the blade first.