RogerGarrett
Member
Hello everyone,
I posted in December that I was selling my 2 HP Unisaw (loaded) and a Grizzly 15 inch planer with about 10 hours use on it. Both sold, and I'm happy to report that the Sawstop that replaced the Unisaw is up and running and I really like it. It is accurate, powerful, and it doesn't even grunt a little when resawing 6 inch thick pieces of walnut, cherry, oak, or hickory.
A couple of issues to share though.
First, if you purchase the fold down table accessory, you're going to have to monkey around with it to be sure that when it is in the fold down position it does not get in the way of the fence. In my opinion, it has a design flaw. Delta fixedit by providing an "extension kit" with it's fold out table, so when it folded out, the hinge was 12 inches further away from the rear of the table, easily clearing the fence. This is what Sawstop SHOULD do but hasn't. And there have been many complaints about this. Their fix of turning the hinges upside down is not a great idea - leaves over an inch of drop down space for work to slide onto the table. This is just a small inconvenience, and I solved my problem eventually.
Second issue: Sawstop advertises with a nickle on it's edge and no vibration moves the nickle when the saw is turned on. I had all kinds of vibrations - with wood, pencils, and tape measures vibrating right off the saw. Since the blade was cutting perfectly, customer service/tech suggested removing belts, shimming the cabinet and mobile, base, etc. That was going to be a ton of work. It turns out it was the blade. I actually ran a millimeter of a 2 inch clamp into the blade when doing a careful and slow miter cut - just wasn't paying attention to how close the handle of the clamp was to the blade line. Oops. Broke the carbide off four teeth, and I ended up putting a freshly sharpened blade from my Delta back on the saw. Vibration went away. But all this created another problem.
The Sawstop is supposed to engage the brake if you run into metal. The brake did not engage. I contacted customer service, and they helped me out. Rather than share it in writing here, I'm going to provide a video of the solution and a description I gave of my experience. Here you go!
I posted in December that I was selling my 2 HP Unisaw (loaded) and a Grizzly 15 inch planer with about 10 hours use on it. Both sold, and I'm happy to report that the Sawstop that replaced the Unisaw is up and running and I really like it. It is accurate, powerful, and it doesn't even grunt a little when resawing 6 inch thick pieces of walnut, cherry, oak, or hickory.
A couple of issues to share though.
First, if you purchase the fold down table accessory, you're going to have to monkey around with it to be sure that when it is in the fold down position it does not get in the way of the fence. In my opinion, it has a design flaw. Delta fixedit by providing an "extension kit" with it's fold out table, so when it folded out, the hinge was 12 inches further away from the rear of the table, easily clearing the fence. This is what Sawstop SHOULD do but hasn't. And there have been many complaints about this. Their fix of turning the hinges upside down is not a great idea - leaves over an inch of drop down space for work to slide onto the table. This is just a small inconvenience, and I solved my problem eventually.
Second issue: Sawstop advertises with a nickle on it's edge and no vibration moves the nickle when the saw is turned on. I had all kinds of vibrations - with wood, pencils, and tape measures vibrating right off the saw. Since the blade was cutting perfectly, customer service/tech suggested removing belts, shimming the cabinet and mobile, base, etc. That was going to be a ton of work. It turns out it was the blade. I actually ran a millimeter of a 2 inch clamp into the blade when doing a careful and slow miter cut - just wasn't paying attention to how close the handle of the clamp was to the blade line. Oops. Broke the carbide off four teeth, and I ended up putting a freshly sharpened blade from my Delta back on the saw. Vibration went away. But all this created another problem.
The Sawstop is supposed to engage the brake if you run into metal. The brake did not engage. I contacted customer service, and they helped me out. Rather than share it in writing here, I'm going to provide a video of the solution and a description I gave of my experience. Here you go!
Enjoy and hope you never trip the brake.
