Any woodworkers?

Id clamp a piece of wood on the thin side of the wood to help prevent rip out

 

I am for one of my businesses. Posted photos of a wood top and metal base table I just did on the previous page. Modulus Designs on Facebook and Instagram, or my website is www.modulusdesigns.com
More current stuff on social media than the website of course.

 

Nice! I have my graphic design guy working on finalizing logos and I’ll be opening up in the spring more officially cool metal work!

 

Thank you! What kind kind of products are you making?

 

If you divide the distance between the near edges of the hinge when it's open in half, then subtract a bit, you get a gap and it will clear. For example, if they are 7mm apart (rough guess based on my pic above), then half = 3.5mm. If I drilled the hole for each 3.5mm from the edge, it will bind. But if I drill the hole 3mm from the edge there will be a 1mm gap and it will clear. Of course, Ive never done this and my reasoning could be flawed! Anyone have thoughts on if that is correct?

 

I haven't had time to play with it yet, 12 hours work days suck! But hopefully this weekend I'll get to set it up.

 

I’m a welder who used to frame houses and custom climbing walls haha so not a lot of finish wood working other than the occasional bird house or side project / gift. Im wanting to add more wood and leather trim to my metal work so I'm here for inspiration

 

Absolutely. I have some pine that is the same dimension as the walnut board. The plan is to make the box in pine first, learn from that, make any changes, do it again in pine until I have it all worked out and practiced, then do it with walnut.

 

Finally got a little time in the shop to start the setup of the new saw.
Started by cleaning up the packing and box.

This was all the loose parts in the box. Came with a little dust bag that I'll never use, lol.

Here's a view most people never see of their saws, the bottom. I'm removing the table extensions as I'll never use those either. They are nice if you where to use this saw on a stand.

One E clip per side to remove them.

The saw came with a little attic triangle square to set the saw up. I thought that was a nice touch.

Dust hose is on. It collects dust from 2 places. At the blade and at the rear of the saw.

 

So I pulled the dewalt out of the miter station. The dust hood is going to come out as well, it's too small for this saw and it hits in many places so a new one will be made.

I set the Makita in place to check the fit and see how much I have to move the fences by, about 1 1/2"

Even setting the saw this close to the wall it functions just fine. Amazing.

I removed the front face of my shop made fences to get to the front mounting screws.

The back of the fence is held down with these little clips. It's a very ridgid mounting system.

This is how the are used on the back side of the fences.

Since I have moved these fences so many times I re drilled for the front mounting screws.

The makita sits about 1/4" lower than the dewalt so the saw will have to be shimmed up to match the fences.

So a sheet of 1/4" plywood Brad nailed to the surface will do the trick to raise the saw.

 

I'm going to need to come up with some kind of an elbow for the dust collection hook up, it's very close to the wall.
So this was my set up to keep the fences straight and in plane while I attached the fences back down. A 6' level clamped to the fences kept everything straight.

Here you can see the left side fence has been removed for re positioning.

 

I still have not made a cut with the saw but here are some of my initial impressions. The fit and finish on this saw is very nice. The slide mechanism is very smooth and easy to operate and it's very ridgid. There is less blade deflection on this slider than my old dewalt non slider. You really have to push on this thing hard from the side to get it to deflect and that's not something you normally do when making a cut. The 2 fixed rods of the slide mechanism make it very ridgid. Everything was square right out of the box even with ups's rough handling of it and the destroyed box. I plugged it in just to test it and the saw has a soft start which is very nice, the saw doesn't jump when you pull the trigger. The handle is very ergonomic and your hand just naturally falls where it needs to be to activate the safety and trigger. The laser seems to be accurate and can be adjusted to either side of the blade. I'm not really a big fan of lasers but this one seems to be nice. However I would rather have a shadow line light instead of the laser. All of the controls on this saw are easy to reach and the important ones are up front. So far I'm very impressed with this saw, definitely a big improvement over my old dewalt which has served me well for many years.

 

I had to trim the fences to get the saw to go to the full 60 degree miter.

It clears and doesn't touch .

And it locks in the detents both ways at 60 degrees.

So here it is all bolted down and the fences bolted down as well.

Next I'll be making a new dust hood to try and capture more dust that always escapes a miter saw, lol. I'm also going to call Makita to see if they have an adapter or a hose to connect to a shop vac. I don't like what I have been cobling together and I would like a more professional looking hook up.

 

This hose may work for you. I use it on my track saw, router, sander and chop saw. All Makita

$50 Cen-Tec Systems 94709 Quick Click 16 Ft. Hose for Home and Shop Vacuums with Expanded Multi-Brand Power Tool Adapter Set for Dust Collection

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0849L6LLH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This is Amazon Canada but they should have it there

 

Thanks for that, interesting system. Looks like I can get just the adapters for $31.

 

After looking at that and then the rockler and any others I could find on line I went with this one. Ordered it today. It was $59 and free shipping from rockler.

I'm hoping this works because I have a clearance issue with it mounted so close to the wall. Also I like that they can be angled to the side so that should help. Also I read online that the other kit had some issues with some of the makita fittings. The shop vac I'll be using for the dust pick up is directly under the saw, so I can shorten this hose if need be as the fitting just screws onto the hose. I've had good experiences with other rockler dust collection stuff.
They offered this kit with 2 different hoses, one is collapsible and I didn't want that so I went with the one with a fixed length.

 

While I was delivering some printing to one of my customers today, I saw that he'd just bought that same saw! He bought another a couple weeks ago to test and liked it so much that he bought a second one. He said the biggest reason for the Makita is that it had the best dust collection.

 

Need some advice or help with my table saw. It has really been struggling with rip cuts for a week or so. I put a new blade on today and noticed as I was tightening the nut, the shaft to the left of the blade was turning. I couldn’t get it tightened fully unless I held the belt with some vise-grips. Could this be a bearing issue? It’s a 21 year old craftsman. It had been a beast but but not so much lately. Edit/ I had the blade blocked still with a piece of walnut.