Originally Posted by
DaveVman
Just a quick update about my Swarts saw after using it for a few months. I'm very happy with it. After a few uses it seemed to go out of square. I emailed SWARTS and Sam called me back and talked me through adjusting the saw over the phone. He also gave me several other tips. Try getting service like that for a $300/$400 tool from anyone else. The problem was that the positive stops are not positive enough. Once I realised this was the issue I just had to adjust it to make sure 90 degrees really is 90 degrees. Now, even when I cut an angle and then move it back to square it cuts square. For example the other day I cut some mitres. Then last night I switched it back to square and cut some 240mm boards square - no problem at all. Apparently they plan to improve these stops in the future and also issue a retro kit for existing saws. I make a cut just outside my line and then work up to it to get a sub-mm perfect cut so I have only been using the laser to tell me very roughly where the blade is. In the manual is says the laser can not be adjusted. I talked to Samuel about this and he told me it can be adjusted and they should change the manual. I haven't got around to adjusting the laser yet because I don't rely on it but Sam has explained to me how to do it so I'll try this at some point when I get around to it because it would be handy to line things up faster. Incidentally I also bought a shop vac from Swarts and this has been running just fine also.