Help please. Can you identify this Startrite saw?

[MCSmike]

Hi there.

I was given a table saw by a neighbour some time ago and its been stored in the garage waiting for me to get somewhere big enough to use it. It now seems that I'm not going to get that long-awaited workshop so I will probably have to sell the bits I've collected but not used.

The Startrite saw does not have a model number on it but the serial number is 300 95684. Does this mean its a TA300?

It seems to have all the bits with it i.e table extensions, sliding carriage, crosscut and ripping fences as well as the outrigger.

its got a facility for a scoring blade and the table is 31" x 32"

Its a single phase version.

can anyone advise on the likely model and any idea what I should expect to get for it?

TIA

Mike

 

[DaveL]

Hi Mike,

Welcome to the forum.

Sounds like a gloat, being given a Startrite Saw, so your off on a roll there. :wink:

I think you need Scrit to help with you saw identification, hopefully he will be along soon.

 

[MCSmike]

Thanks for that Dave,

Not one to gloat too much but I also got a 10" industrial radial arm saw, a cyclonic dust extractor and about 20 various TCT blades. As one of my old bosses used to say "Its better to be born lucky than good looking!"

Mike

p.s. what use is this lot though if I'll never have anywhere to play with them.

 

[Scrit]

Hi Mike

The two saws that Startrite made with a scoring blade were the TA300PS and the TA1250. The difference is that the 1250 is later and had a cast-iron table, at least some of the ones I've seen had. The TA300PS appeared in the mid to late 1970s and had a sheet metal fabricated and ground table. Both are darned big saws as they were designed to almost crosscut an 8 x 4 sheet, so you would need a double garage to be able to use one. I think the number is indeed a TA300OSof 1984, but don't hold me to that.....

Below: Startrite TA1250PS - similar to the TA300PS

As to value there a number of caveats, here. These machines have a sliding rip fence, a long crosscut fence with a pull-out end section and two flip stops. They also have an integrated rear run off table. The saws must be complete and be clean to fetch a good price. I've seen clean, complere examples go for £1250 to £1500 on eBay, although the prices/market has been a bit flat over this summer. If anything is missing the price will be potentially considerably less - the saws haven't been made for nearly 20 years and with the demise of the manufacturer (the Startrite NAME is owned by Record Power) replacement parts are inderstandably difficult to source.

I still have a TA300PS brochure (in brown rather that Startrite's garish yellow/green of yore) and I'd be happy to scan and post that if the mods will permit it

Regards

Scrit

 

[Newbie_Neil]

Hi Mike

Welcome to the forum.

Cheers
Neil

 

[MCSmike]

Hi there,

Thanks to Scrit for the reply and to Neil for the welcome.

The saw looks very similar to the one in the picture Scrit. the only differences I can see are that instead of having a badge saying 'TA 1250' it simply says 'tilt arbour' beneath the Startrite name. It also has a light alloy coloured runner for the sliding carriage. The handles for rise and fall and tilt are 'butterfly' type rather than a single handle on a wheel.

I'd love a copy of the manual if it can be done, if not, thanks for the offer.

Now I know more about the saw, it hurts even more to have to get rid of it!

Mike

 

[Scrit]

Hi Mike

No manual, just considered a TA300PS some 20-odd years ago and got the sales leafet. I went for the Wadkin AGSP in the end because I wanted a cast iron top. Yours sounds like a TA300PS (the carraige was slightly different to the TA1250), there weren't any other models around in 1984, and the top is actually fabricated steel - look underneath and the re-inforcement "webbing" is welder in place. Nothing wrong with that, it has stood the test of time well, it's just that woodworkers were a conservative lot back then! As for variations, well Startrite made machines in small batches, so there are loads opf minor differences between the machines over relatively short periods of time :? Pity you've got to get rid, these are really nice saws if you have the space

Scrit

 

[Jimleach]

wrong post

 

[r1chard06]

can anyone help me I have same saw I thought it was ta1250 orderd some parts from altspares they don't fit soo had a good look round and realized its a ta300ps n I need help with thiss saw as the idler pully and tensioner assembly are totally missing im in need of pictures so I no were they went to replace them