Thread: Had A Great Triton Day! (Short Story)

While the rest of Australia was watching the Melbourne Cup, I was out the back working up a Triton storm!

It was the first time I have really given my new Triton gear a workout and a good test day to see just how accurately I had set up my saw....

On the Menu:

1. A little ripping
2. Numerous Cross-Cuts to length
3. Couple of Mitre Cross Cuts
4. Router Shaping
5. Viewing the Results

Equipment:
Triton WC2000, Triton Circular Saw, Triton Router, Triton Router Table and $40 Ultra Router Bit Set (Cheapies from Bunnings)

Well....first off a few rips in table saw mode and after a little checking with the square...there seemed to be the smallest inaccuracy...almost un-noticebale...but then again, after checking my square...it was slightly innacurate too so I let it go for the moment. The project was a simple In/Out office type mail rack consisting of a sheet of pine as the base and a few pine rails (one on each side and a centre divider) shaped for a nice rounded effect.

Flipped over the crosscut mode to cut the base down to size and get rid of that awful factory cut edges on the pine and replace it with a nice smooth Triton cut edge Pine base cut to correct size with no dramas...Seemed to be quite square to the naked eye and no high spots, ridging or burns...thankfully.

Next I converted to Router Table mode (damn I wish I bought the Router stand last week...what an annoyance changing tables ). I figured I would round off my pine side and centre railds to remove the sharp edges befoe mitre cutting them...In goes the router table, in goes the Orange beast and the $4 Ultra TCT router bit...A minute later...nice rounded rails (top side only) on my border pieces with good result. Luckily you only need to align the fence with the router table

Convert back to crosscut mode with the saw and time to cut the 45 degree mitres on the back rail and 2 side rails to give them mitre joins rather than a boring butt join which wouldnt have looked too neat with my rounded tops....A little anxiety here as it was my first go at mitres with the Triton setup. I trusted my sliding mitre gauge and set it at 45 degrees for the cuts...Ran a test piece or two through to check alignment and all seemed fairly square to the eye (again not trusting my dodgy square)...so away I go mitre cutting the good pieces...No real dramas.

With that all done, I tried a dry fit of the railes on the pine base...Not bad at all! Back main rail just slightly too short by a millimeter, but hey, who gets it perfect on their first go? Dry fit nicely and very happy with the result. Will biscuit join the rails to the base tomorrow.

Second quick project for the leader of the opposition was to cut some ply bases and matching sides to make some simple boxes for her sewing threads...This is what I primarily brought the Triton Gear for...to quickly cut pieces to length WITHOUT the need to measure each one, worry about drawing straight lines, then setting up a guide rail for a handheld saw cut...Man, I had 3 bases and 12 sides cut up in less than 10 minutes!! What a breeze! Of course, when I get a chance, I'll be making a few jigs to make things even faster.

So that was my first solid days (well it was only 2.5 hours) of Tritoning and boy I had fun And now the other half finally sees the value in the $2000 odd dollars I have spent lately on all this gear

Just thought I'd share my experience