New Saw table fence.

[edwood bear]

Roy
It is fair comment and I will get the website altered and supply a drawing with the fitting insructions. I have seen some major kickback from timber being forced into a blade down a fence that is not square.
I am finnished now.
Regards
Steve

 

[Roy Clarke]

edwood, that would be good, I may well order a fence

I have been attacked by a piece of wood which kicked back on a Triton table, probably caused by the fence being misaligned. I am MUCH more careful as a result. That just hurt a bit, it could have caused real damage. I was lucky.

 

[jonny boy]

Mike, the Mulecab is a very similar fence to the one on the Jet supersaw and on that configuration there's a hole drilled straight through the middle horizontally which a bristol lever bolt secures an auxillary fence that can slide for and aft to address the mentioned problem. It could easily be done on your fence for a minimal cost. I have recently come into possession of a saw with a Beisemeyer full length fence and don't plan on altering it's intended way of use however, but each to his own is what I say.

jonathan.

 

[ecp]

Just out of interest - a question.

What do people think is the minimum height a fence needs to be for regular use (- and why)?

 

[Roy Clarke]

It depends what your "regular" use is. Other than miniature saws, I think the minimum is around 1/4" probably for sheet cutting., anything smaller seems a bit too thin. However, don't use it for something 1" thick and 2" high.

 

[edwood bear]

Just let everybody know I have added a note to the fitting instructions to add a short sacrificial face as discussed. the website will take a bit longer to organise so be patient please.
Regards
Steve

 

[David C]

I think the addition of that information is a very good move.

Safety training is taken extremely seriously in my workshop.

It would be great if Scrit would write a book about safe machining practices, as he clearly shares this opinion and has the experience to call on.

Can he recommend any modern book, in print, which he feels covers all the relevant issues?

The main danger to the amateur and hobbyist is lack of information and some shockingly dangerous machinery that can be bought and operated without any training/guidance at all.

US magazines have a lot to answer for as well as a recent UK one.

David Charlesworth

 

[ecp]

write a book about safe machining practices

There are already a lot of individual books on the subject of safe practices, but not one that is an all round detailed guide covering all aspects of the workshop - at least not one that I have found.

There is also information scattered over a large number of web sites, and perhaps an easier option than a book written by one individual trying to cover everything would be a web site which has sections on aspects of safe woodworking practices in the workshop - covering all aspects both for the trade workshop and the casual DIY'er, and contributed too by 'experts' in the various areas of workshop practices.

At the moment there are a lot of 'GP's' on various web sites/forums quite happy to give advice to the in-experienced (and the experienced too), but a lot of them only know a little about a lot, but a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing.

Someone may already have started to do such a web site. But there is little information on the site at present, and currently no contact details.

 

[Newbie_Neil]

Hi David

US magazines have a lot to answer for as well as a recent UK one.

Would that be a certain routing magazine that is full of US articles?

In fairness to them, I must admit that I didn't find a single page that had more than two photographs of an unguarded sawblade. It was unbelievable.

Luckily it was my last issue, as I'd only subscribed to get the "free book".

Cheers,
Neil

 

[David C]

Not the one I was thinking of but this just shows how prevalent this practice is.

I would be a great idea if this forum's archive could be trawled for a new section called

SAFE MACHINING PRACTICE. or UNSAFE MACHINING PRACTICE

But I expect that would represent a horrible task for some unfortunate person.

David Charlesworth

 

[Scrit]

What do people think is the minimum height a fence needs to be for regular use (- and why)?

For a low fence the ally extrusions on proper Euro fences are often around 10 to 15mm thick which works well as you can get the crown guard right down over the workpiece. For standard fences I feel that the fence should be a similar height to thicknessof timber you are cutting. This gives adequate support to tall thin pieces in the same way an overhead planer fence should do. I've found a height of 3 to 4in works well on 12in saws for general use - after all that's what the OEMs supply on European industrial machines

But I expect that would represent a horrible task for some unfortunate person.

David

Don't get me started :roll: :twisted: :shock: :wink:

Scrit

 

[ecp]

For those interested:

- The American site is being updated and on it is a Eurojig for thinner material

- Woodworker magazine has just published a test of the fence by Andy Standing who has rated it 5 out of 5 for performance (and I have to agree with him on that).