Re: What is the best size and purpose for you to use a vertical cutting table?
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Hi Henry I love that the table is now put in from?the front, so there is no slot on the front side of the blade, like my old saws, but the HUGE gap at the sides of the blade is actually dangerous, as the offcuts of the small pieces I generally cut on the vertical table disappear?down that hole and try to drag my fingers with it! I use a piece of 5/8" thick melamine coated MDF as the table screwed to the lower guide assembly in place of the OEM table and the saw slot is cut in with the blade itself, so has minimum clearance at front and sides.? The MDF doesn't last that well before it starts to wear around the blade but its WAY better than OEM and lasts me 10yrs before I'm forced to make a new one (maybe next time I'll use some of that phenolic coated plywood in the picture?) I like it wide enough to the LHS of the blade to clamp a guide to and long enough in front and behind the blade?to support my work (rule in picture for scale - I like a bigger table than the old OEM). I don't like cutting steel sheetmetal?on the vertical table (unless its a curve, when I have no choice), because I've ripped the teeth out of the blade too often, so use at sub-table mounted on top of the vice jaws, where I can cut through at a good angle (see pic)? Likewise a mitre guide slot in the table is not much use to me, as the sub-table is easy to get any angle clamped right and sawn. Rgds - jv ? On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 6:44 PM Henry <rongfu@...> wrote:
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John Vreede