First post, bought first table saw, 20+ year old Craftsman 315.228110 for $50 last month.
Replaced 2 elevator shims, lubed, aligned fences, used about 6 times so far, and very satisfied.
However, "not satisfied" with the unified riving knife, pawls, & blade guard. I want to
use these as much as possible but I already seem to fiddle too often with it (i.e., wasting time,
nuisance factors).
I could replace the one holding pin & 2 nuts, so I can independently remove the pawls &
blade guard "quickly", when all I need is the riving knife, however there are some
springs in there too, which I am sure will frustrate me long term. The pawls are sharp,
scratching throat pieces & materials & limit downward travel (i.e., I could tape, file,
remove them when working on fine materials, but again, a nuisance).
Seen some discussions on "Shark Guard" but this is already 6x the price of my saw to-date.
I've also seen some people make integrated zero-clearance throat plates with a splitter
alone (different problem set). I've seen the "Low fences" & "shop made riving knife" post
(mpc member from 09-14-2021) that adds several solid woodworking practices.
So finally my question Wondering if anyone has come to a reasonable set of "changes"
to keep these safety features but make it more time-convenient (i.e., modular) to change
over when temporarily needing to remove knife, pawls, and/or blade guard?
Regards,
Replaced 2 elevator shims, lubed, aligned fences, used about 6 times so far, and very satisfied.
However, "not satisfied" with the unified riving knife, pawls, & blade guard. I want to
use these as much as possible but I already seem to fiddle too often with it (i.e., wasting time,
nuisance factors).
I could replace the one holding pin & 2 nuts, so I can independently remove the pawls &
blade guard "quickly", when all I need is the riving knife, however there are some
springs in there too, which I am sure will frustrate me long term. The pawls are sharp,
scratching throat pieces & materials & limit downward travel (i.e., I could tape, file,
remove them when working on fine materials, but again, a nuisance).
Seen some discussions on "Shark Guard" but this is already 6x the price of my saw to-date.
I've also seen some people make integrated zero-clearance throat plates with a splitter
alone (different problem set). I've seen the "Low fences" & "shop made riving knife" post
(mpc member from 09-14-2021) that adds several solid woodworking practices.
So finally my question Wondering if anyone has come to a reasonable set of "changes"
to keep these safety features but make it more time-convenient (i.e., modular) to change
over when temporarily needing to remove knife, pawls, and/or blade guard?
Regards,
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