Thread: Triton Workcentre 2000

A possible reason could be if you are using a thin kerf blade and the timber is binding on the riving knife.

Maybe it needs to be sharpened. How many teeth on the blade ? The standard Triton has 40 teeth but if you move up to a 60 tooth blade like many of us in here have done, you get a smoother cut but you have to go slower as you push the timber through.

Originally Posted by Kris.Parker1

Can anyone give me a possible explanation as to why, when I'm cutting wood to size, does the wood become harder to push through the saw blade.
Any ideas?

Is this recent or always been like this?

Blade blunt.
Fence not parrallel to the blade.
Blade too thin, narrow kerf, binding on the riving knife.

mine was the same, saw is not in line with the riving knife.

I'm thinking you might have the guard down too low so that the two small hold down tabs on the guard are giving you too much resistance.

If this is the case, lift the guard up by 5 mill and you should be doing it easy.

When i first got my triton the metal upright that the guard slides down on was bent so that the timber passed the blade smoothly but bound/stopped on the guard. I used a pair of pliers to carefully bend the metal so it was perpendicular to the workcentre top, all seems fine now.

Thanks for your suggestions guys, went home and seemed to have figured it out. Seems as though the guide when it says it is the same on both sides is out by a mm or two. Adjusted for the cuttnig now and seems to push through nicely.

Thanks for all your help/

Cheers.

Chris

Check that the wood is perfectly straight, because if there is a bow in it it will tighten up against the blade and riving knife. I made a simple sledge with an alluminium straight edge which passes betwen the blade and fence. The bowed edge must be against the allumium to straighten one face then do the other with the newly straightened face against the triton fence.
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Cheers for that mate, I will try that next time I use the bench. Once again thanks.