cleaning 'er up

[siliconbauhaus]

Now that I've joined the happy family of bt owners I have some questions on it.

The tray (aluminium I'm assuming) for the sliding mitre and the rails have some crap on it for a better word. I'd like to get it all ship shape but wondered if there were any do's or don'ts to cleaning these parts.

I thought I read somewhere ( can't remember where ) that the bt has a problem with dado sets, is this true?

I was considering getting a router table part as my one doesnt have the holes for it, does anyone here use a router mounted this way and if so are they happy with it? I looked at the router set up on the c'man pro yesterday but with the xmas rush I couldn't make my mind up on if it was useful or not.

Cheers,

patrick

[jackellis]

On the SMT, ry soap and water, or perhaps mineral spirits if the crap is gummy. Avoid car waxes/polishes. Use Johnson's paste was only.

I use a 8" dado set but some people recommend the 6" variety because you can't cut dados wider than just under 3/4" with the 8" set.

I have a Hitachi M12V mounted in the accessory table for my saw with a simple, home-built fence that I clamp to the rip fence and I'm pretty happy with that setup right now.

[Ed62]

I have a DeWalt plunge router attached. Sometimes I use it handheld, and other times it's on the BT3K. If I had a lot of room, I'd probably make a router table that was larger. But it works as is in my space limited shop.

Ed

[LCHIEN]

read the BT3 faq linked below under my sig line.

[siliconbauhaus]

oops....I thought I read all of the relavant stuff mate.....goes off to re read