When I tried out the saw, and changed the depth adjustment,
I found some alignment problems in checking it over.
I had this hole in the wrong place so I just glued a plug in there,
and now I can drill it again hopefully in the right spot.
When I did my initial tests, I just put this screw in there
to lock the angle.
But, now I need to come up with a different mechanism for
locking the tilt. So, I'm gonna put some kind of
locking knob here, for the angle.
And, I measured the distance from the hinge here
to the knob with my beam compass,
and now, taking that onto a piece of plywood,
I'm being very frugal in using up some scrap,
I marked where this arc, while tracing it.
So, this block with a bolt in it is gonna get screwed onto here,
and then, this part, fits on here,
allowing me to lock the angle. Well, that makes for a rather
large opening needed for all the angles, so I think
I'm gonna have to create some table saw inserts, here.
I have to say, dust collection on these fixed spaces
is way better than what you typically get on a plunge router
like this one. So, I just cut a bigger slot where the blade goes
with my jigsaw, and that will allow me to
more easily get the blades in and out through here.
So, I just made a whole bunch of inserts to go
into this slot here. I also made
an on/off switch by, basically, just installing a switch
on an inexpensive extension cord,
so I can turn the saw on and off with this.
And, I bought myself a larger, 8 1/4 inch blade, which is
bigger than the 7 1/4 inch blade that these saws normally
go with. And, the reason I have room
for a bigger blade, like that, is because I took this
blade guard out, which fits around the saw,
so basically the space occupied by this,
is now used for this.
So, that is 60 millimeters of depth of cut,
and for those who like it complicated,
about 2 3/8th of an inch.
So, that cut came out nice and shiny,
even though this is just a piece of Cedar,
but then again, I've got a brand new
finishing blade in here. When I made that rip cut
I noticed that I had to put my temporary fence
at a slight angle, so something was misaligned,
and it turns out the saw blade was a little bit more like this
compared to this plywood frame was off about two millimeters
across the blade, which doesn't seem like much,
but, it's enough to mess up a cut.
So, I cut it out a little bit more here,
and then jammed this a little bit tighter in here,
and sanded down this block a bit more.
And, hopefully that should correct for that.
Well, that's now scored as best as I can tell.
When I was testing the saw, I was getting a lot of sawdust
coming out the front because as the sawdust
comes off the blade here, it just comes out like this
and basically hits me.
So, I made this little sawdust deflector,
which will deflect it down.
This is the sort of thing that would be very difficult to cut
without a tilting arbor table saw.
And, the big dust ended up mostly underneath,
so I guess my dust deflector, in here, kinda works.
So, I still need to make a fence and some means of supporting
this thing, and I think I'll save that
for another video.