Thread: good old 10HB tsc

or if any Adelaide members have one I could look at this week when over

I'm not familiar with that saw, but if you could post some photos of the bits and pieces, I'm sure that there would be a way to work it out.

so patience pays off sometimes< I got the front rail worked out.
The back rail though has me stumped. These (4) brackets go through the chrome rail and mount to back of table huh2.jpg but which way do the brackets go?



Thesehuh1.jpg are? and for what?
I know its old but wow the assembly diagrams left a lot to be desired.



Another Q easy way to remove the rust off the threads 2 big adjusting handles fit onto. Ive got the wheels on but the locking knobs wont tighten.

The second pic looks like the blade guard support. The end of the rod with not nut has a threaded hole?

If so, it somehow screws onto the blade mount inside, with the nut end poking out, or perhaps the nut end bolts to the blade mount? Either way the black clamp clamps onto the rod and the flat side faces upwards, and you bolt the blade guard/riving knife assembly to the top of the black clamp. Old school type


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The second pic. is of the blade guard, splitter and pawl mounting. The threaded end of the rod fits through a hole in the rear trunnion casting and is tightened with the nut. The cast bits mount on to the rod and the splitter with attached paraphernalia is mounted to that. I wouldn't bother putting it on if I were you, it's a PITA to adjust and limits you to cuts the full depth of your stock. You couldn't do the melamine cuts you've been asking about with it fitted. Make some zero clearance inserts and fit a guide feather to the rear of the cut slot instead.

Are the fence rails round or square? The brackets in the first pic aren't part of the fence are they?

The other thing those brackets in the first pic might be for is to act as the stops for the blade tilt?

err what is a guide feather?

Are the fence rails round or square? yes, square

The brackets in the first pic aren't part of the fence are they? thats what I am asking, they came in the same lot of packing. There is only one way the black bolt goes onto the rail but which way does the bracket fix to the bed?

Originally Posted by Tonto

err what is a guide feather?

A piece of material, usually wood, which is slightly thinner than the saw blade kerf, with a slightly tapered front edge to guide the stock once it's past the blade. It only needs to be 10mm high. It takes the place of a riving knife or splitter. You can't fit a rise and fall riving knife to a contractor saw like yours (or mine) because there's nothing to attach it to.

My saw is slightly different to yours, mine came with round rails, but I can't see any way those other brackets could be part of the rear rail attachment system. The bolt and nut arrangement looks like it is possibly to provide a fine adjustment locking mechanism for something. Is there a thread in the top of the extended bolt things? Have you had a good look at the exploded parts diagram in the instructions? They aren't another part of the splitter arrangement are they? Could be that they are to align the splitter to the blade.