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17th March 2013, 01:43 AM #1Novice
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home made table saw questions
Hey guys, I'm about to start work on a home made router table, roughly 800mm by 450mm and i am thinking about using a hand held circular saw in it on another plate to give me a table saw and i was wondering if anybody else has done this or has any suggestions about how to do it. I believe you can get a triton work center that will let you do this but to me it seems crazy to pay for something like that when my router table will have a solid fence along with T and Miter track on it which i don't think the triton work center has. I was also wondering if someone could tell me how to attach a circular saw to the triton work center as i would like to use a similar method on my table (i'm assuming there is wiggle room to let you square the blade up). Making up specialty brackets would not be a problem, my father has access to all the required machinery and knows how to use them and regularly comes home with parts to make and fix a whole manner of things. I don't need to be able to tilt the blade as i will mostly be using it for re sawing stock. I'm hoping i can get this to work as i'm short on both money and space.
thanks for your help guys
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17th March 2013, 07:41 AM #2.
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Sorry if I sound blunt, but my suggestion is if you have to ask how to do this then you probably shouldn't be doing it. The Triton work centre is quite a bit more than an inverted circular saw, especially where safety is concerned. Why don't you look up Triton on-line. You will also get an idea how the saw is held in the WC.
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17th March 2013, 12:35 PM #3
Here's one way... provided you can make sense of my meagre diagramming skills.
If your table top is only MDF or similar, I'd recommend either using a different system than hold-down buttons or use bolts down thru the top of the table instead of screws. After all, they have to support the entire weight of the saw in operation!
(ie. I wouldn't trust 4 piddly screws into the table. The stops and cams should be fine being screwed, though.)
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17th March 2013, 06:10 PM #4SENIOR MEMBER
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home made table saws - Books and Hector Acaveda
Hello,
Regarding home made table saws - the following books are worth reading - just google the title
Making and modifying machines - Taunton Press
40 Power tools you can make
And the best home made table saw that I've seen on the internet is the one built by Hector Acaveda - link below
Hector Acevedo's homemade table saw
Hector Acaveda was a member of this forum and posted some notes about home made table saws in this thread
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f44/sh...ablesaw-22394/
BillLast edited by steamingbill; 17th March 2013 at 06:12 PM. Reason: missed a word
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18th March 2013, 02:58 AM #5Novice
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that was the idea i was after
Thanks for the ideas, using cams will be perfect for what i'm doing, I made some a few months ago for a home made compound bow (don't worry folks i only shoot at a range) so it shouldn't be an issue to make up a few more. As for securing it, I was planning on using 1/4 inch bolts and a 3mm aluminium reinforcing plate on the back of the MDF so it won't be going anywhere but the cam idea will give me the flexibility i wanted.
thanks again for the help guys
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