Thread: Generic Tablesaw MJ2325G

Originally Posted by BobL

These table saws have been around for many years and are called contractor saws hi bob I have just came across you excellent post and pictures , I wonder if I can pick your brain on a couple of questions first dose your saw take a dado blade and secondly what is the length of the threaded part of the arbor ,the reason I ask is I have a similar saw and I am considering getting a dado blade but not sure if I can or not because the threaded part of the arbor on my saw is slightly under an inch. Have you used a dado blade on your setup if so did you install the flang washer or only the nut to secure the dado blade ? Any help and advice will be greatly appreciated . Best regards.

I've had mine (a 12"/3HP model) for 8 years and like most things you basically get what you pay for.

I spent half a day unpacking and setting mine up I was pleased to find that the table was nice and flat, flatter than the display models in two stores where I looked at them.
However, I was a bit that it had some mm sized casting flaws inside the LHS T-Track.
I emailed some photos of the flaws to the store and they said as the table strength and operation was not compromised if I brought the table top back they would fill the holes with metal filled bog which I was not happy about as it had taken me half a day to put the thing together and the last thing I wanted to do was to have to dismantle and assemble it again.
After a bit of a to and fro with the store they gave me a tube of metal bog and a voucher for $50 which I was satisfied with.
BTW the metal bog is still there 8 years later and has shown no signs of coming loose.

When set up right it cuts accurate and square.

The T-Slider is -0.5º out and as you can see below I added an extension to it and that works well.
I have thought many times about making a table top sled sled for it but the T-slider works so well in most cases I have not bothered.

The slotted tables extensions/wings are bit of a nuisance sometimes when wood gets caught in the holes

The exposed internal acme threads that drive the blade up and down and tilt the blade eventually get covered with saw dust and stiffen and if left unattended will jam.
Good dust extraction has helped with this but otherwise an annual cleaning and lubing with graphite is recommend.

Given the price, the supplied fence is OK although 8 years on it is now getting sloppy.
Some of this problem has been due to the following modification.
I removed the RHS table wing and replaced it with a router wing and added further extension
I then modified the fence to suit a router on the RHS -This has worked really well - details here https://www.woodworkforums.com/showth...210#post303210
There's no doubt that the heavy router fence attached to the TS fence has contributed to the now sloppiness of the fence

The black plastic shroud around the blade inside the cabinet constantly filled up with slivers and large chips that could not be removed by dust extraction so I removed that shroud completely.
I then added an aluminium hopper with a 6" duct underneath the cabinet so it has 6" dust extraction on the base, and 4" dust extraction on the top (see below)
The dust extractor is a 3HP unit mounted outside the shed and it works really well.

I very rarely use the blade tilt so I blocked up the back completely with a sheet of aluminium except for a hole than enables the belt to pas through from the motor.
Because I rarely tilt the blade I use a zero tolerance throat plate almost all the time.

The blade guard and dust extraction was rubbish so I removed it completely and replaced it with a modified Dust picker arm and hood.
Full details are in this post https://www.woodworkforums.com/f200/bristle-guard-edges-dust-collector-hoods-guards-165892
Although I do not use a riving knife I recommend others do so.



The plastic belt guard lasted about 5 years before falling off so I just removed it - as you can see in the above photo I have workbench behind the table saw which can act as an out feed table, so the absence of a belt guard is not as important as the bench prevents people being able to get to it.

I cut a lot of aluminium and ripped some very hard wood with this saw so it has worked very hard.
One of the caps was replaced a couple or years back - that's about normal for this sort of motor.
Recently it has developed a bit of a rumble which suggests a bearing might be starting to wear - I will have to watch that.

So in summary - even though it has problems and been modified substantially this saw has done a lot of good work.
Would I buy it again? Probably not now, but give the financial constraints I was in when I bought it I still think it has been value for money.

Oh yeah - and welcome to the forums!

So it's settled then, I assembled my new SB-12 table saw today from machineryhouse.com.au

They are having a sale at the moment so the total price with gst was $890, in budget and I'm very happy with the saw so far too.

I've got a bit about it here for anyone interested: http://bit.ly/ONjN4w

Once the garage is back to normal (currently rebuilding it), I'll get to work on a dust collection system.

Thanks for all the advice guys!

Mario

Just read through the blog post, very nice upgrade over the tiny Ozito, hope it serves you well.

Originally Posted by cray-

Just read through the blog post, very nice upgrade over the tiny Ozito, hope it serves you well.

Cheers Michael, though to be fair, a cheap hand saw is probably an upgrade compared to the little Ozito!