Good timing, theres a job i really really need to do and ive been putting off as i knew it would involve welding, but i dont have a welder.
My axminster saw bench i got from axminsters ebay, and it came with a flaw, which i knew about, but its a pretty big flaw. - I got the saw for 300, when it should have been 450.
The mounting bolts to hold the table to the base are squint. I'm guessing the points on the frame where the nuts the main securing bolts go in to are placed wrongly.
What this means in real money is when you try to cant the blade for miters, the blade isnt lined up with the blade opening/well to such an extent that the blade impacts into the table. there is some adjustment, but its not enough and you either have the blade straight in parallel to the miter slots, ,in which case canting it over to miter it impacts, or you readjust the fore and aft adjusters so it can miter, but doesnt line up with the slots, you simply cannot have both.
Axminster tech team adjusted it roughly, so it was nearly straight and nearly mitered but not enough for you to utilize the miter slots accurately, and as we all know thats something that has to be right or the fence will always be out of alignment, and thats not something easily fixed.
I guess the solution is to take the cast table off, grind or remove the nuts or whatever the main bolts screw into and place them in positions relative to the top. I guess whomever originally welded the saw together in China hadnt accurately placed the mounts so when assembles it was squint.
If you were look at the cast top in relation to the base, it sits squint, and is so by about 5 or 6mm.
So what I need to do is remove the cast top, remove the nuts, then with the saw upside down, have the bolts going through into the base, place large nuts on them, accurately reposition the top to the base so they are square and parallel to each other, and then weld the nuts into their new position.
So it meant me getting some sort of mig welder and trying to sort it myself in the above method.
I see from the lidl link they've just the thing I need and not too expensive either.
As to the best option, its always best to have a look on you tube to see what others make of it in review and this one appears to have been made by someone better suited to judging such things.
The review looks excellent, and the guy doing it judging from his workshop is more suited and experienced in welding. Where perhaps another pro(if you is a pro) might highlight its weaknesses in that its not a pro kit, this reviewer seemed pretty taken with it enough to give a positive recommendation.
So on the strength of it I reckon I should get one and try to sort the sawbench i've been putting off for the last 5 years.
