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| Dal Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 678 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 98.20.56.115  Rating: N/A |
Cody asked about my new saw on another thread, the saw we are talking about is one of the two best light table saws ever built, the Ryobi BT3100. I got this one barely used for $50 and it came with every possible option. The PO couldn't make the raise/lower knob work, (because the center screw was almost all the way out)! Some of the accessories included extended off feed table (8'), Right hand extension table (4'), router table adapter, expansion tables, micro fence adjustment, short and long miter fences, 3 new Freud saw blades, miter clamps, 2- dual miter slot table extensions, Incra feather boards, Shark blade guard, and a lot of stuff I haven't even unpacked yet. Even using one of the blades I sharpened with my HF saw blade sharpener, the saw goes through wood, either pine or oak, like a hot knife through butter. I've been doing some remodeling in an antique Avion that belongs to a school teacher that moved in here for the school year. I've learned that Avions suffer the same problem buses do... nothing is square, plumb or true! There is always a bulge or an angle at some point in your measurements. This new saw has made it a joy to make angle, width and miter adjustments on. | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 888 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 72.211.145.15  Rating: |
...yes Doofuss, but it's AAA battery powered..40 of them!  | ||
| Dan Clishe (Cody)
Registered Member Username: Cody Post Number: 186 Registered: 1-2008 Posted From: 206.51.117.126 Rating: N/A |
Thats the diference between a table saw and a cabinet saw, but you almost need to use a cabinetry saw before you see how much they differ. did you get the air float table extentions too, those are powered by a shop vac and float the larger wood simular to an air hockey table does, makes larger pieces of wood much easier to deal with by yourself. | ||
| Dal Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 680 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 98.20.56.115 Rating: N/A |
Yes Cody, I have them, but my shop vac is not large enough to run them. I used Johnson's paste wax and slicked down the tables. I also did the planer tables and my little home made router table at the same time. | ||
| Dal Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 681 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 98.20.56.115 Rating: N/A |
Many years ago I used my dad's cabinet saw, (driven by a leather belt from the ceiling), and it was a bit quieter than this one, but, his was a 14" I think. I've so far cut about 120 bd ft of pine and oak on it, and haven't had to re-align it since I did it in the first place. I used a dial indicater to check the run out and at the extreme edge of the blade, next to the gullets I got .001" That was with my HF sharpened blade. I don't know about the Freud blades... and I don't think checking more closely would make a difference. My dial indicator is accurate to .0001, so I'm pretty confidant it's not enough to worry about. I had the gauge and my micrometers checked about 4 years ago, but haven't used them more than once or twice. This saw will never replace a really nice iron top cabinet saw, but considering my skills, I'll never be in the class of "Cabinet Maker". | ||
| Dan Clishe (Cody)
Registered Member Username: Cody Post Number: 187 Registered: 1-2008 Posted From: 206.51.117.126 Rating: N/A |
Mine won't replace my old oliver either but for it's purpose which is to travel with me and help me pile sawdust it does a great job. The accracy is pretty amazing with these. | ||
| Mike Everard (Meverard)
Registered Member Username: Meverard Post Number: 30 Registered: 1-2011 Posted From: 98.210.8.135  Rating: N/A |
Dallas, I love to see your enthusiasm for your tools. I have a cabinet shop and since that is my everyday profession, I don't quite enjoy it as much as you do. However, when I am doing woodwork for the bus, I do enjoy that. Keep up the good work, Mike Hey Jack: He got the industrial size battery charger so keeping the saw powered is not a problem. | ||
| George M. Todd (George_todd)
Registered Member Username: George_todd Post Number: 1277 Registered: 8-2006 Posted From: 99.37.28.23 Rating: N/A |
Mike, Do you have a CTD, or a Pistorius? G | ||
| Dan Clishe (Cody)
Registered Member Username: Cody Post Number: 188 Registered: 1-2008 Posted From: 206.51.117.126 Rating: N/A |
My grandfather was a cabinet maker as was his father and grandfather before him, I am a sawdust piler, I'll never lay claim to be anything more than a sawdust piler because of a glitch in my anatomy, I can still count to 10, my dues havent been paid, I enjoy taking a perfectly good piece of wood and reducing it to it's simplest element, a pile of sawdust and maybe a wood chip or two. Watching my grandfather take a piece of hand picked hardwood, study it,, and then turn it into something beautiful with a life of it's own, soon to be cherished as a family heirloom and destined to be passed to the most worthy of the heirs. As a child standing in the doorway of his shop, I watched in awe as he created his art with the deftness of several generations of practice behind him, guiding his hands,, he was truly an artist and created some of the most beautiful chests, dining room sets and just general furnishings, he took as much pride at building a step stool for a child that was too short to stand in front of a toilet as he did when he created the pulpet for our local church, when I was about 8 or so he asked me to build a waste basket,, when I finished and handed him the waste basket he smiled, I'll always remember that smile. | ||
| Dave Walker (Chrome_dome)
Registered Member Username: Chrome_dome Post Number: 375 Registered: 3-2010 Posted From: 74.41.14.235  Rating: N/A |
Dal I am in awe. What a great machine. Will you be building a lot of tables out of Butter? How are the cabinets going? Chromie | ||
| Jack Fids (Jack_fids)
Registered Member Username: Jack_fids Post Number: 890 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 72.211.145.15 Rating: N/A |
Back in April at the BIG TEXAS confab & campfire Ol Dal was playing Lawyer (he'd finished half the case anyway) he make a promise to make EVERYONE present FREE BoDark cabinetry (upper & lower) Those involved have retained the services of a better Attorney (one that finished 2 cases before we called at 10-AM) ...just sayin... | ||
| FAST FRED (Fast_fred)
Registered Member Username: Fast_fred Post Number: 1574 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 76.195.75.120  Rating: N/A |
Table saws are fine , but for easy fitting of strange angles and tapers I'll take a good 6x40 table sander any day. FF | ||
| Dal Farnworth (Dallas)
Registered Member Username: Dallas Post Number: 682 Registered: 7-2004 Posted From: 98.20.56.115 Rating: N/A |
What were you smoking Jack? I said I'd do it if they cut and split the logs! Fred, I agree, a table sander is nice, but too limiting for other uses. |
