I'm Back in my old shop
but things don't quite look the way the used to look.
The only thing that's really left is the Table Saw.
The movers are coming tomorrow to pick up the remaining
heavy stuff including this table saw.
So I still have to get that ready for moving.
So I thought I'd make a video about taking this one apart,
and about the saw in general.
This is the dust collector that I added to the saw
I got a few stuff up here so this is blocked off.
And it's got a hole down here for sucking in mostly fine dust.
And it just uses a hot water exhaust blower.
And that's wired into the main switch for the saw.
At some point I changed the wiring of the saw
to run off of 240 volts but the furnace blower
actually runs off of 120 volts so to get the 120 volts
I actually hooked it up between ground and one of the prongs
which you're not supposed to do that but I thought I'd tell you
about it just to get the safety Nancys all worked up
so the idea with that dust collector is that it actually
only sucks up a fine dust. So for the coarse stuff
I have to suck it out from time to time but I'm not
a production shop so it's actually not that dust I create.
This baffle here is actually designed to keep the first dust
from getting sucked into my little dust collector.
I don't normally take this out but because I'm moving
the saw, might as well get everything in here.
I first made this sled for the saw and the idea of this sled
was to be more like a four mount stop table saw.
with basically a wall fence on this side
and with the sled sticking out this far,
as long as I hold down the work piece here,
I've cut pieces of wood that were 2 1/2 meters
or 8 feet long on here without a problem
so this is worked out really well for me.
But at some point, I built a small table saw sled
like this one just for cutting out some puzzle pieces.
And ended up using that sled a lot because it's so handy.
So I then built a slightly improved one
and that's this one here, it has this little flip thingy here.
And the idea of this is when the sled is far enough
that the middle of the blade is in line with this here,
that catches on the out-keep table
and that is a veritable safety feature, keeps the blade
from coming too far at the back. And also corrects this slot
from getting cut too far out the back here
and that helps to direct sawdust back into the saw.
And that makes using this table saw sled
a relatively non-dusty operation for a table saw.
Much less dust than the miter saw.
And there's tons of YouTube videos out there about building
a ultimate table saw cross-cut sled
My recommendation is don't build the ultimate sled
build something that is handy so you'll actually use it.
I quite like the fence on this table saw,
but it's not perfect but having gotten used to it,
I get very good results with it.
The nice thing about this fence is
it locks on both sides. Basically the lock thing
just pulls this little thing here which pulls
onto the rail on the back. And because of that,
because this is so far away,
it's possible to lock this fence down so it's not square.
Right now it's a little bit off square
Now it's square.
So, if you're not careful, it will lock off square,
but I've just gotten used to when I lock this thing,
push forward on the handle and push it down,
and that squares it up before it engages on the back.
And with the fence engaged on the back as well,
it's very rigid. Typically T-Square fences that
only attach in the front you can wiggle the back a fair bit
whereas on this one
you can’t wiggle it a bit. The fence originally came
with a fine adjustment knob here which engaged a rack
that was on the bottom here so you could adjust the position
with the knob, but I ended up never using it
and I often scrape myself reaching under here
against that rack, so I just got rid of it.
because if I need to make fine adjustments to this fence,
I can get it to the nearest thou that's 1/40th of a millimeter.
just by loosing the fence
and bumping it with my wrist like that.
So never bother with the knob. Don't need it.
The key to siding effects really precisely is to have a
diial indicator on there so you can see how far you've moved it.
I don't have a dial indicator here anymore, but I have a whole
video on using a dial indicator just like the fence.
Alright, here I've got my old non-tilting rotor lift.
I haven't used this rotor lift very much lately
because mostly I've been using a tilting rotor lift.
Oh look, a very old push stick. This is before I realized that
this shape is the ultimate shape for a push stick.
I'm sorry John Heitz, but you're just plain wrong
about your push sticks.
So this tray is a table extension, and this part here
is a leg to support the table because
it sticks out quite a ways. These two angle brackets
pull the out-feed at the right height,
and I had to make some shims to get it at just the right height.
And these are just bolted on to the case
with some bolts. If I was doing it again
I would made these things go all the way down to here
to get better support, but they work fine the way they are.
The corner joints for these are basically
like a multiple bridal joint, and a joint like that
has a huge amount of glue area. So this joint,
if you try to break it, the wood will break here
before the joint itself fails. I also made a table extension
on this side because if I'm using the sled
with a really long piece of wood, I want support
as far as here as possible.
The other reason I made this is because my old table saw
which is smaller than this one had actually more distance
from here to here so I decided I had to make up
for that shortcoming, and this is just bolted
on to the cast iron.
And this little tab hooks into this rail as well
to give it more support. I have now stripped all
my add-ons off of this saw, but I still need to take the
extension wings and the fence rails off.
Now bolts like this can get lost in a little
so my solution is to always just put the bolts back in the holes.
And that way you don't lose them.
Now I just have a teeny weeny little table saw
but I think for safety, I should also take the blade out.
It's all you safety people out there, this time
I even unplugged the saw. At least give me credit
for that, eh?
That has sure become echoing in here.