Triton workcentre
Spent ages looking for a new table saw too replace my broken 3" one. I wanted one that was inexpensive and produced a straight rip cut, tired of micro adjusting the fence on my old one. Looked at all the ones available. The cheaper ones all had rip a fence that did not work without micro adjusting the rear of the rip fence.
Final decided to spend a bit more and read every review and watched all the videos on the triton workcentre. I had a 195mm power saw so purchased one.
Basic assemble was easy, and I have to say was impressed, so opted to purchase the triton 235mm power saw, with 82mm depth of cut. It took two attempts to fit the saw to the table, had to use a digital angle finder in the end to set the blade square to the table.
Only to find that you loose 30mm from the depth of cut due to thickness of the table. The impressive 82mm depth of cut in now 52mm, too late to send it back. In all I read and watched no one warned about table thickness reducing the maximum depth of cut for any saw fittted by 30mm.
Stuck with a saw that will only cut 52mm which is more that I would had had if I had fitted my 195mm saw. I continued to finish the set up. Only plus point perfect square and straight rip cuts. Faults - Kirf blade, cast fitting push locked, slides back when timber binds coming of the the saw, exposing the front of the blade when cutting, requiring repositioning. Mitre gauge, again a cast fitting is lose fitting in slot produces 2mm +- wobble when crosscutting it is imposable to get a square cut parallel with the saw blade, in conjunction the vertical cut was also not square across end cut, dispite my many attempts to correct both including readjusting saw blade which effects the square cut when ripping. Overall disappointed after all the hype and favorable reviews. Going to work on those cast fittings.
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