ramita track
all right now it's the 2650 mo Makita track
so maybe you're thinking about buying one of these straightaway I'm gonna say as a builder
you should have one of these so I built for like 10 years in New Zealand before I even saw one of
these and then I went over to the UK and every single builder I came across they mostly had the
fissile brand version of us I think this here was modeled directly off the 51 so far you know in the
few months that I've been using it it works pretty much the same as the festal because I just bought
this track the rubber is they leave the rubber sticking out of it now that is so when you get
the track the first cut you make with it you can get that rubber lining up with the guide do they
leave it a bit long and then you your first cut Get Set 100% little animal with there but now
there is being trimmed to suit the blade but I would highly recommend using a vacuum part of
what makes the track so so good is that the blades all encased in the middle and therefore dust just
goes straight out of the hole out the back of it and with a vacuum working it goes straight in the
back in when you're cutting plywood like this all you have to do is make two marks one at each end
and sit that track on it now the rubber is there as I think two things one it presses down so when
you're cutting nothing will chip up and the other reason is it's an anti slip so when you're pushing
the sword down and moving it along you're not going to slide the rail in any direction
that meant cut even with a blunt blade we're still getting a factory edge cut so the saw has a lot of
little features there's a little speed control here we always just keep it on the highest six
don't really use that these knobs here once you've got the saw on the track you adjust these knobs to
tighten it to the rail because there's actually a little bit of room in the rail and this thing
here this is like a lock it's got a little washer there and that that sort of clamps it on the rail
so if you have the source set on a 45 degree angle with all the way out here that little
ring will prevent the saw from tipping off the track and you've got your angle adjustment here
to achieve that 45 degree most importantly you've got your depth adjustment so you can suit that
the depth of the plunge cut to whatever you're cutting I guess we've done our long cuts with
the guide rail formerly known as the three meter guy rail now all we need is the short one I have
these guide rail connectors and another short guide rail because initially we just combine
the through fourteen hundred millimeter long ones and made a 2.8 when we wanted to do long
cuts but when you type to get when you stitch them together they're not perfect you have to
get a straight edge out make sure they're perfect then tighten them and all that time that takes it
just it was a lot of wasted time so that's why I picked up that longer guide rail there so all we
do is use that for the long lengths and then we can just whip out the one for the short lengths
so usually this kind of assembly work would be done in a workshop we don't have a workshop we
tend to say no to this kind of this kind of job because of that but this is a small job
so we figured we could we could handle it and I feel like the tracks or super-handy
for these situations because sure is not as good as a full-scale table saw but it gets
pretty close it's kind of a good way to think about the tracks or it's like it's kind of like
a portable table saw you instead of taking a sheet of wood to the table saw you're taking
the saw to the sheet of wood and with the rubber stickers on the underneath you're not going to
scratch that surface up so for a boater it's a really good tool to have we go with a track
so you can cut a beautiful box like this is of your a fully equipped workshop so yes for the
guide rails like $300 for the saw it was about $800 and if you go with a fistful so I think
it's more like $1,100 so and in my experience I mean I didn't use the fist too long enough but
in my experience the difference between the two tracks ORS is negligible maybe if you have used
a fist or for longer you probably got a better idea comment below anything to add to the track
so review bar make sure you got a vacuum that's the Scott Brown carpentry guide to track sores