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I've bought a huge amount of stuff off Rutlands and generally been happy except for their often misleading "sale prices" and general "overpricing in order to discount" strategy. They should not have sent you a previously used item by law unless described as such and on those grounds alone you...

I have a Titan P/T - just upgraded to the Axminster PT2 so will be flogging mine off on ebay eventually, but I thought mine was a decent beginner PT for the money and I got good results. There are 2 bolts behind the fence where you can adjust the infeed table if I remember right - no mention of...

Ebay is a good place to pick up small-ish quantities of hardwood delivered to your door - there's a category for timber http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Wood-Timber-/112570/i.html - in some cases it costs a little more (in others you can get absolute bargains especially for unwanted pallet loads of...

I used a 19mm toothed forstener bit for the same job - takes longer to drill but no setup and perfectly clean holes. But then I needed round holes because I use sections of a 19mm hardwood dowel as dogs - they work a treat after tapering one end slightly by sanding.

I use a sheet of insulation board over 2 sawhorses - set my tracksaw blade correctly so it just goes through the material and I can make a thousand cuts before I need another £10 sheet of insulation board. Insulation board is very light (goes up in the workshop rafters when not in use), wont...

Custard, I dont do slow mate - life's too short - I didn't quit work, my business works for me and not the other way around so I'm fortunate there. I don't need to work precisely because when I do something I do it full tilt and I do it well and I don't ask permission from experts to have a go...

I am generally happy with the quality and design of the saw but just amazed that it would arrive in an unsafe condition and yet not have in-built adjustment to make it safe. If you market and brand a saw as "hobby" quality - and Axminster are very specific about that, then you surely accept a...

Yes I do Steve - order 1624 ;-) I just need to rewatch them - affable and endlessly informative as you are it's hard to persuade the Mrs that you're better viewing than Game of Thrones - but I will rewatch the one on the guard I did see that (just never noted the name of it). I'd assumed at the...

Yep, zero play in the guide now - in fact I have had to spray with ptfe to get it to budge with a mallet. Luckily, there were 2 small "feet" on the alloy guide which made filing them down respectively to make left and right adjustment quick and easy - the fence is millimeter accurate from the...

Yes the manual is notably sketchy on the subject of the ripfence - it just says to check that it is paralell and yet mentions nothing about adjustment which is conspicuous by its absence since it then describes how to adjust the blade and riving knife. Seems a bad state of affairs that in order...

Steve the fence sits in there EAXCTLY all the way along its length - in fact its a little too snug and takes a lot of effort to adjust the length of the fence - i.e. a mallet - so there is absolutely zero play that way. The only way I could possibly make play that way would be to reduce the...

Steve, that simply clamps the fence to the fence mechanism using a platevthat slides in the T slot

I'm perhaps Britain's newest and most nervous first table saw owner. A couple of months ago I decided that i'd like to build my own coffee table and - being like a lot of you I'm guessing, got distracted into setting up a complete small home workshop instead and all this while I am supposed to...

My favourite trick to scribe which is more accurate than compass is to poke a pencil through the middle of a small plastic lid - Pringles lid is ideal. Then run it down the length of your wall - unlike compasses you dont need to keep the angle of the compass square because your guide is round...

Thanks Steve, I'll do just that - I do have your excellent Table Saw DVDs but had watched the set-up one some weeks ago before I bought the saw - I will watch it again as I'm sure it will all seem much clearer now I actually have a saw to adjust - I got distracted by the jigs :-) I must admit...

Hi, yes, looking back at the picture, my riving knife seems to be set lower than shown and so requires me to have the blade more than double the height of the workpiece. I went with axminster because even their hobby quality tends to be quite well made - and they are at least honest that saws in...

Thanks Jinxy and JakeS for sharing your experience of the Axminster TS. I have a TS-250 and am in the middle of assembling it - I also took you advice and got myself a Rutlands mobile base (2 for 1 offer so works out quite cheap for table saw and bandsaw). Here's a question I'm trying to get my...

Thanks very much for the great suggestions and description of the usage of the extensions - Marcros you in particular helped the proverbial penny drop for me. Since you and Steve both suggest putting the saw on wheels I am going to go for that idea. I assume a simple flat truck with locking...

I might get the sheet sander - I mean, how bad can it be - it's hardly a precision tool and since it will have to be covered by a 12 month warranty by law (some argue 2 years depending on how you interpret EU legislation) I know I will get 12 months use or an endless stream of them until I do...

I'm looking at the Axminster TS-250 table saw and those who are familiar with it will know that it comes with the option of a right hand extension table and a sliding table. Might be a stupid question, but none of the books and videos I can find seem to cover exactly what their intended...