Chris Hobson
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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
As mentioned in another post, my table saw died while I was in the middle of fitting a new back door frame and door to my house. I managed to bring it back to life by fitting some new brushes to the motor but it is getting on a bit and is a bit past its best so I started thinking about replacing it and maybe going for an upgrade. My old saw is pretty similar to this one.
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I first looked at the Machine Mart website but they only had saws like my old one or ones that cost over a grand with nothing much in between. So off to Amazon we go and instead ordered this one.
I ordered it without the stand as the one on offer was like a kind of folding wheelbarrow contraption for use on building sites. As mine would only be used in the workshop and didn't need transporting about, my plan was to adapt the stand from the old saw and use that. I'm pretty happy with the new saw, for an extra £140 or so it is quite a serious upgrade. The fence runs on a carriage with linear bearings and a rack and pinion mechanism so that it is always perfectly square. It is much quieter and the brand new blade cuts through softwood like butter. Before I took the old one to the tip I took off various parts that I thought that I might have a use for. I took the nearly new brushes out of the motor and found that they were really quite badly chewed up. So it seems that the armature is probably pretty shot and that the motor wouldn't have lasted much longer had I decided to keep it. Here is the new saw with the stand from the old one fitted.
50EKD&pd_rd_wg=Tv96u&pd_rd_r=2e3a702c-4990-41e6-bcaf-cec6da4b486d
I first looked at the Machine Mart website but they only had saws like my old one or ones that cost over a grand with nothing much in between. So off to Amazon we go and instead ordered this one.
I ordered it without the stand as the one on offer was like a kind of folding wheelbarrow contraption for use on building sites. As mine would only be used in the workshop and didn't need transporting about, my plan was to adapt the stand from the old saw and use that. I'm pretty happy with the new saw, for an extra £140 or so it is quite a serious upgrade. The fence runs on a carriage with linear bearings and a rack and pinion mechanism so that it is always perfectly square. It is much quieter and the brand new blade cuts through softwood like butter. Before I took the old one to the tip I took off various parts that I thought that I might have a use for. I took the nearly new brushes out of the motor and found that they were really quite badly chewed up. So it seems that the armature is probably pretty shot and that the motor wouldn't have lasted much longer had I decided to keep it. Here is the new saw with the stand from the old one fitted.
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