Thread: Tablesaw Overhead Guard

Derek,

I think if you want to dispense with the stay, you would need to use either heavy-duty steel pipe or steel box section for the vertical support. The length of the horizontal member (about 800 mm in my case) means that it can exert strong leverage and could therefore twist most steel angle. I notice that Wayne has used steel pipe for his vertical support, but I don't know whether it is sufficiently rigid to withstand a strong backward push on the perspex guard box.

Rocker

Great job Wayne, looks like it will do the job nicely.

Rocker,

Great job on your guard!!! It's damn nice to have the things set up to remove nearly all the dust/chips. Also feels a lot safer to use especially with the Dado set installed. I do still get some chips flying out during certain cuts (ie. edge dado's) but, all in all, it is working great.

Regarding your additional support. You cannot see it in the pics, but my vertical support is TWO steel tubes and the cross brace is fixed inbetween these two. This seems to give quite good support but my arm is not as long as yours (and no, thats not size envy ). While I can move the guard back/sideways a bit, I dont think there is any danger. To expose the blade on mine, I think I would have to fall on top of the thing, from an angle and a large height which I am pretty sure is not going to happen (at least not when the saw is running).

Cheers,

Eastie,

Thanks mate!! Yep, love it and it does work very, very well. Just need to upgrade the cheap saw one day (come on Lotto!!)