Hello, I'm Simon welcome to my workshop, in this video we are going to be taking a second
look at the Evolution Track saw, I'm going to be fixing some tracking errors that started
to occur, and in doing so I'll also addresses the problem
of the splinter guard constantly falling off.
Let's get tinkering.
This is Evolutions top of the line track-saw the R185CCSX, I've had it about 3 months,
made about 20 cuts with it, the track lost its splinter guard quite early after about
6 or 7 cuts it just fell off and its not starting to bind when I go along the track, and if
I measure the distance here I've got 6mm to the blade edge excluding the kerf, if I do
it here you can see there is a gap here, If I extend it I've got 7 and a half, 7.4mm,
so it has moved by 1 and a half mm in 20 cuts, which is pretty poor really, but then it's
not a very good saw, so I guess I've only got myself to blame for buying it.
It does come with adjustment screws so I should be able to adjust it to get to back in line,
now personally i don't think a track-saw should got out of line by 1.5mm over a period of
6 or 7 cuts and a few months, of obviously very light usage, this is obvious lt not going
to be that easy to... a bit of a pain to... have to adjust it.
None of the screws seem to be particularly loose, it's not like the think has just worked
loose, now I've just got to find a way, a datum I can use to adjust it properly, I can't
use this datum because it goes in and out, so I'm going to try and use this edge here,
see if I can make that work, although I've come to the edge of my calipers, I'm not going
to have enough space, OK I shall move up to this edge here I think, that's 69.7, i can
see this need, this here needs to go up slightly or this needs to come down, oh, that's far
to much.
OK I'm going to do this off video because it's clearly going to take quite a lot of
fiddling around.
OK I found the best way to adjust this to get to level with the track was to undo all
5 screws, to put the track on, lock it down, so it had no wobble in it, clamp the track
to the... to the saw, I could then move the saw up and down, I locked one of these in
place, I got this to 7mm, I locked this in place, and then just moved this up and down
until i got this to 7mm then locked this in place, so it is now set, these are 6.9mm on
both sides that's pretty good, I now just need to take the track off, and tighten the
other screws and hopefully, it will stay together, and it will all be correct.
right that's all tight, if i now put the track back on... I just clamp it down, test it hopefully
this will now still be correct - that says 7, this says 6.7 now so its moved you can
see that difference there, a third of a mm, just going to check the track is on properly,
lets turn it over, right that track is nice and tight, just going to clamp it on again,
you have to remember that you have to re-tighten the track every time, because it changes all
the time after every cut, 6.8 now, see there's still a bit there, 7.2, 0.4 mm out between
there and there, so i think that's not good enough, need to have another go, this is why
you don't buy a cheep track-saw.
OK so this is interesting, what I've done, is I've moved this frame, that way, reduced
this gap its now 4.1mm what that has done for the first
time this blade guard now hits the top of the track so it can't hit the splinter guard,
what was happening before is it kept hitting the splinter guard, pushing the splinter guard
of the track , hence I don't have a splinter guard on this track , so hopefully I've actually
fixed the problem with the splinter guards coming off all the time, so it looks like
it was never assembled properly but i think that is how it should work it should hit the
track rather than the splinter guard, so I'm hopeful if i fit the splinter guard back on
I wont have the problems I've had in the past.
That's 4.04, ah 4.04, it's exactly the same OK so that's good as I'm going to get it,
which is good, hopefully I've solved the splinter guard problem, due to the poor assembly of
the saw.
I now clean the track where the splinter guard was glued using a combination of white spirit
and a scraper.
add some double sided tape to the track.
I then use a long clamp as a spacer before fitting the old splinter guard, which I'll
trim up when I next use the saw.
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