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Thread: Hafco SB-12 TS setup
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15th September 2014, 11:16 AM #1Intermediate Member
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Hafco SB-12 TS setup
Got my new saw home on Saturday, spent the afternoon putting it together & setting it up. Luckily my son-out-law the big strong fitter & machinist was on hand to help, mostly by graciously accepting the tools I handed him. As several other forum members have pointed out, the manual is less than great, so I was wondering if anyone has come across a decent version, or failing that, does anyone know how to adjust the trunnions? The blade alignment is pretty good but not perfect, and I'd like to know how to deal with adjusting it if it ever goes further out of whack. There is no mention of this adjustment in the manual.
All the other adjustments on the saw seem to be pretty straightforward if a little fiddly, like the hard to reach blade-guard attachment bolts.
We ended the day with expanded vocabularies and a functioning saw, so all in all pretty exciting. I've only been waiting about 30 years for this!
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15th September 2014, 02:41 PM #2
Congratulation on the new saw. I can understand how elated you are as I was when I moved from a Triton to a real saw.
I am not sure if all saws are set up the same, but I had to move my trunnions just a smidgen to get the blade perfectly aligned with the mitre slot. There were 4 bolts which hold the trunnions on to the table. I seem to remember that a couple of them weren't that easy to get to, but can be done. I just loosened them off enough so that I could use a length of timber and lever the trunnion into alignment, or tap the timber on the trunnion with a hammer if it needed to go in a different direction that couldn't be levered. I had to do this a few times as it wanted to move a little when tightneing the bolts.
My saw is not a Hafco, so could be a different setup.
I also notice from the photo on the website that there is only one bolt through each side of the leg into the cabinet. Mine was like this when I first got it and found that the cabinet would rock around on the legs (that is you can push it backwards and forwards or side to side). I drilled an extra hole in each side of the leg where it attaches to the cabinet and put another bolt in each. This locked it up solid. Drill holes as shown by the red dots in the picture.
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15th September 2014, 09:44 PM #3
To find a better manual, I'd look for a 'could be from the very same production line' - alike from somewhere like Grizzly in the US.
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16th September 2014, 01:12 PM #4Intermediate Member
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The journey continues...
Thanks Treecycle, I'll have another look at the trunnions with a good torch. As I said, the saw is pretty good out of the box, I would just like to know what to do if I need to re-align the blade.
You're right about the stand. It could do with a lot more metal as well as more fasteners. I can see a timber one with built-in sawdust hopper (rather than a flat plate with a hole in it) in the future.
I've emailed H&F about a decent manual, but...we'll see what they have to say.
Master Splinter, I'll keep looking. These things are badge engineered, so there are probably 27 versions of the same crappy manual out there.
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16th September 2014, 04:14 PM #5Intermediate Member
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