Thread: Several Triton Jigs

Mini cross cut sled:
My WC usually had the extension rail permanently attached.
However, to do a quick cross cut, the mitre triangle was always too sloppy, and it was always a pain to set up the extension table and re-adjust the fence to keep it square.
So I made this cross-cut sled that slides along the extension table rail.
I know there have been lots of cross cut sleds posted here that use use edges of the table, but they are too big for what I wanted. This is big enough to allow square crosscuts of 600mm melamine.

The sled has some HDPE pads (made from a thin chopping board) to allow it to slide easily, and the base is just ever so slightly above the table edge, so there is no binding.
Once the fence is dialled in square there was no adjusting, as the extension rail would never move.
I thought this was one of the better jigs i made, and I never saw anything similar, so I thought I should share it.

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Dust box:
There have been plenty of dust boxes made and shown on this forum, but this one I thought has some special features I never saw anywhere else, so again thought I should share it. Basically it is a box which rests on the orange lower rails, not on the upper slide rails. The top edges are notched to fit around the underside of the table.
It doesn't seal tightly, because you need air gaps for dust collection to work.
So far, so normal. Now these are some differences with mine which I thought were unique and clever:

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- saw ventilation.
All other examples I saw tried to somehow give ventilation air from the side of the box. My solution was to feed the ventilation out the back of the box.
I started with a 90mm irrigation fitting which I cut to fit around the carbon brushes on the saw. I must have made this 15 years ago or something, and all the original tape is still holding.
To that I attached a short piece of 50mm pvc and then a 2 1/4" hose (which fits the pvc perfectly). The hose just goes out a hole in the back of the box.
The great thing about this is, as the saw moves up and down, the hose only moves back and forth about 2-3cm. The hose is snugged inside some 65mm pvc, which allows it to slide through the hole without snagging.
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The only complication was that adding the hose attachment makes it stick out the side of the box. I needed to add the protruding window you can see to provide clearance for the hose clamp etc.
The only reason it is clear plastic is because it needed to give clearance to the hose, but not stick out so much it fouled on the sliding table. So I used some spare 1mm polycarb sheet, literally to save a few mm. So with that window there is enough clearance for the saw to go up and down, and also for the sliding table to move freely past the box.
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- blade change window
The box is great for containing dust, until the first time I needed to change a blade. I couldn't access anything. So I just added this sliding window which is big enough to get my hand in to loosen the blade bolt.
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- swivelling dust chute
The cutout in the base uses an old dust chute I got in a kit but never needed. Over the outlet I suspended a 100mm pvc elbow which swivels, allowing easy connection to the dust collector hose.
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Mobile Base:
There are a zillion mobile bases on this forum and youtube etc, but I have never actually seen one which works like this.
(Over the years of disuse some sides have been removed, but it still works the same.)

The base lifts the WC against the front and back edges only, not touching the rails.
And when the base is lowered, it actually comes away from the WC by a few mm, and so the WC sits on its original legs and is nice and stable - it doesn't touch the base at all.
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Under the base is basically a steel parallelogram just made from some SHS and flat bar, which the casters bolt into.
There is no fancy locking mechanism or anything. The trick is when the base is raised, the wheels go just past top dead centre, and this essentially locks them in place.
To provide leverage, the parallelogram has a third row which extends out the side of the base, and you insert an extension handle in there and that is plenty of leverage to lift the WC.

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