Thread: Triton Powered Saw Table

Good idea cobber. Send the Sheila down the shop to get one.

Bamccall,

I have helped to make a canadian canoe using the Triton workcenter.

We were ripping ceder that was 25 mm thick, 4 m long into 5mm thick strips.

You could do this with the 184mm saw however it would take a while.

First I recommend that you use a very coarse blade. This will make it much easier on the saw.

Set the blade at its highest setting. This too wil make cutting easier and faster.

Listen to the saw and don't force the timber through so fast that the saw labours.

You will make a lot of saw dust. If you are going to use the dust bag, clean it often. I have seen a customer try and keep using the saw even after the dust bag was full. This will quickly kill your saw through over heating it.

The 235mm saw with a 24 tooth blade will be much faster than the 184 mm saw with its standard blade.

Once you have cut the strips, How are you going to do the edges?

I used 2 router bits. One was a cove bit, the other a rounding over bit. Both of the same radius. This way I had maximum surface area for the glue to bond to and few gaps.

A friend who oftem makes canoes (He is in a club) prefers to hand plane each strip.

Good luck with your project.

Steve

I have seen a Powered Saw Table fitted with a Triton 9 1/4 Saw. It was great, it had a good depth of cut but was noisy though.

Originally Posted by bamccall

I bought a new Triton Powered Saw Table include 184mm power Saw at Mitre-10 Store for my sea kayak wood strip project.

I tooking hoop pine rough saw on the Triton Powered saw table with 184mm power Saw for 6mm x 16mm wood strip cutting until I saw 184mm circular saw is black smoke and motor body is hot due someting wrong or electrical faulty. I had check with Triton 184mm power Saw model: TSA184 is 1600W and 4500rpm.

I should upgrade to 235mm circular saw is 2000 watts electric motor.

Also I have another triton product:
Router Kit (RKA001)
Wheel Kit (AWA100)
Dust Bag (DCA100)
Dust Collector (DCA300)

I tooking lot of wood dust filled in dust collector and coming from power saw table and router kit in my sea kayak wood strip project.

You should get wood strip router bit called
Stacked Flute and Bead Bit from USA by
www.mlcswoodworking.com

The Stacked Flute and Bead bit makes both profiles by simply moving bit up or down.

Update
I bought a Hitachi 235mm circular saw C9U without saw blade at ebay auction for $49.00 that not bad to save $290.00 also another triton 235mm saw blade 60T purchase.

I know people tried to Triton workcenter sellling due no workshop in garage that I used Powered Saw table still in flat bathroom - no worried it

Anyone who got Router Raizer in router table for router bit height.
Bamccall

Bamccall,

My saw also gave up the ghost after little work. It was under warranty at the time and eventually repaired free of charge here in Adelaide. During one of my many phone calls as to what the status of my saw was I spoke with the repair agent and he informed me that my saw was one of three in for the same problem. It appears the armature cooling impeller is secured by glue, work the saw, current draw increases, heat increases, glue melts and eventually shorts out the armature windings. Poof brown expensive smell. Take the saw back for warranty repair or betters still get your money back and purchase a more reliable saw, and probably cheaper than the Triton.

Regards,

HarryM

Given how many people are happily using the Triton without issue (some of us for years), sometimes loading it up beyond what would be regarded as good practice (we are all still learning after all) seems to provide significant evidence that faults with the saw are few and far between.

Have a good look through the Triton threads. If there was such a dramatic problem with the saw design, I think it would be a hotly discussed topic, not the very rare thread that pops up one every other year. The fact that the saw barely ever rates a mention (other than frequent references to people to "get one" when they are having a problem with they own non-Triton version) seems to me to be significant evidence to offset the opinion of one repairer who has a couple on the shelf.

are people doing with the saw to overload it anyway? It has 2400W of power! Perhaps a bit of a look at blade quality (& sharpness), teeth count, feed rate, cut depth, and clean air supply to the saw may have a lot more to do with overheating issues than some manufacturing fault.

Ask TritonJapan about saw failures, and causes- if I remember correctly it had in every case everything to do with clean air supply, and nothing to do with design or manufacture.

Originally Posted by Bamccall

Update
I bought a Hitachi 235mm circular saw C9U without saw blade at ebay auction for $49.00 that not bad to save $290.00 also another triton 235mm saw blade 60T purchase.

I know people tried to Triton workcenter sellling due no workshop in garage that I used Powered Saw table still in flat bathroom - no worried it

Anyone who got Router Raizer in router table for router bit height.
Bamccall

? Not sure what you are trying to say here. Even tried Babelfish.

Non sûr ce que vous essayez de dire ici. Même Babelfish éprouvé.


Oui!, Al

I know we recently added a spell checker to this forum but I think you will have to go the whole hog and get the microsoft one, it does grammar as well. Or do I mean "has well" :confused:

Originally Posted by stuart_lees

are people doing with the saw to overload it anyway? It has 2400W of power!

Stuart,

The powered saw table has a different saw in it. It's only 1600W and is smaller than the 2400W TSA001 saw.

That's a point..... got confused when he started talking about acquiring an Hitachi 235mm.....

The powered saw table is definitely not designed for anything other than light, occasional work, but can't speak for it, as have never been in a position to play with one.