iTech 01332 250mm Table Saw

[9fingers]

Nice Malc. When is the big unpack and assemble?

You will be able to make some proper workshop doors now

Looks like you will comfortably beat the Christmas deadline.

However Malc might get distracted by all that pallet wood and be making new furniture for the house? :lol:

Bob

 

[Malc2098]

Gissa a bit more time, Gents.

Been writing up reports for yesterday's site visits which will go part way to paying for it!

 

[Malc2098]

This is going to be fun getting it round the back and up the garden, and I do mean up!

It' also got to go through that gap by the iron gate.

177KGs!!!

 

[Malc2098]

Half way!!

It's by the back door. 4 steps and a grass incline tomorrow, methinks, with a neighbour's help.

Mission Control was wearing flip-flops.

I demoted her to tea making!

 

[Coley]

Sounds like you're making good progress ! How are you managing to move 177kilos or was that the overall weight of the pallet ?

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[Malc2098]

Sounds like you're making good progress ! How are you managing to move 177kilos or was that the overall weight of the pallet ?

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Start with a compliment then go for the jugular!!

Gross weight 197KGs just of the saw box!

With difficulty and lengths of 45x95 I managed get it off the pallet and onto the front step.

With difficulty I managed to get it on to a wheeled dolly.

With difficulty I managed to get it round to the back door.

With difficulty I managed to get it up one step onto the patio.

With difficulty I managed to get it across the patio to the foot of the steps to the building level.

Then I decided to open the box which fell apart and I removed everything from inside the upside down saw, including the cast iron side tables. The main cast iron table is part of integral cabinet.

I then built a litter around the table, now the right way up, and just catching the edge of the table.

I can lift one end of the litter easily (hah!).

Tomorrow, I will seek out any mug of a neighbour and see if we can lift it up the steps and over the low wall and across the grass and up into the 'shop.

If we can't, Plan B is I put out a call on FB and got one local positive response for tomorrow eve. I will get two mugs of neighbours and my FB chum, and with promises of beer I reckon four of us should be able to do it!!

 

[RogerS]

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Start with a compliment then go for the jugular!!

Gross weight 197KGs just of the saw box!

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LOL ! Lightweight :lol: My machine, still on its pallet, is 600 KG

 

[Malc2098]

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Start with a compliment then go for the jugular!!

Gross weight 197KGs just of the saw box!

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LOL ! Lightweight :lol: My machine, still on its pallet, is 600 KG

Showoff! :lol:

 

[AndyP]

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Start with a compliment then go for the jugular!!

Gross weight 197KGs just of the saw box!

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LOL ! Lightweight :lol: My machine, still on its pallet, is 600 KG

What happened to the cunning plan?

 

[Malc2098]

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Start with a compliment then go for the jugular!!

Gross weight 197KGs just of the saw box!

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LOL ! Lightweight :lol: My machine, still on its pallet, is 600 KG

What happened to the cunning plan?

Currently, I've built a litter round it so two or four bods can lift it, I've wrapped it in a tarp because rain was forecast and is spitting and I've built the base and am just about to make up a couple of new lengths for the mobile base that I used for the previous saw.

I have access to bods this evening.

 

[AndyP]

I meant the top secret cunning plan that Bob came up with that will enable Roger to shift his 600kg TS all on his own.

 

[Phil]

I meant the top secret cunning plan that Bob came up with that will enable Roger to shift his 600kg TS all on his own.

It is called the C-A-M Process :lol:

Call A Man

 

[Malc2098]

Well, my cunning plan worked!

Two neighbours, a mate and me, combined age of over 200, and a homemade litter, with a lot of huffing and puffing, we got it from photo 1 to photo 2!

 

[Malc2098]

Well, I had a free day today, so I started putting it together.

Chinese instruction manuals are not the best, but if you separate all the bits and the nuts, bolts and washers etc, they make sense.



Side panels come off for inspection, cleaning and in this case, access for bolting the upper body to the lower body.

 

[Malc2098]

Extraction tube fitted.



One extension table fitted. It's dished!!!!



So is the other one!

 

[Malc2098]

Lets look at the the mitre gauge.



It's got the bits, the washer for the tee slot, micro-adjustable stops for common angles and the pin to lock against them.



There's a bit of lateral movement in the slot, but I think that can be removed with some tape to shim it.

 

[Malc2098]

The rip fence came in its own box.



With all these bits.



They fit together quite nicely, but a couple of the bolts to fix the front and back fences to the table were so close to other brackets on the upper table that knuckle scraping could have been a possibility.

And that's the rip fence done, apart from the micr-adjuster.

 

[Malc2098]

While I was on a roll, I decided to put the dust extractor together.



And this is what it turned out like.

 

[Coley]

Looks like a well built machine.That's gonna be one fine workshop once you get everything in place. Very smart !

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[DaveL]

That is coming together nicely.

 

[StevieB]

Nice - dunno why but I was expecting it to be white/grey, probably because the SIP01332 is :eusa-think: Quite like the blue!

 

[Malc2098]

Thanks, Gents.

Electrician's been his morning.

Guess what!

He's tested and signed it off!

Yay! (as they say on soshul meejya)

 

[RogerS]

What are you proposing to do re the dishing ?

 

[Malc2098]

What are you proposing to do re the dishing ?

I'm not sure. I recognise this isn't a high end trade/industrial model, but an entry level hobby model.

I think I will send S&S an email with the photos and see what they say, but I'm not holding out much hope with my experience of them so far.

 

[AndyP]

I'd be interested to know what problems you can expect from having the tables dished like that.

 

[Rod]

I suppose dishing on the extension sections are not too critical.
Are you going to buy anymore accessories?

Rod

 

[Malc2098]

I'm not sure what problems I can expect, it just doesn't look right when the two faces meet at the ends but not in the middle. It's possible they could mark the workplace passing over the join.

 

[Malc2098]

I suppose dishing on the extension sections are not too critical.
Are you going to buy anymore accessories?

Rod

Not at this stage, Rod. What are you suggesting?

 

[TrimTheKing]

I had the same with my Fox TS, if memory serves I heated the table in the middle, gently, then jacked the middle up to take some of the bend out. That did a reasonable job but not perfect, so I then attached the extension with the lowest spot level with the main table, then used a straightedge (wide one) with heavy then medium grit paper attached to sand the cast iron down level.

Took a fair bit of work and the WIP was lost with the old Haven.

My other thought was to create a flat frame from angle iron around the perimeter of the whole table, attach some flat, straight bars to the bottom of my router and to use that as a makeshift mill to mill the table flat. I would use an old router bit and prepare for it to be wrecked, but going slowly with light passes and a router will eat up cast iron no problem.

 

[RogerS]

Get it ground down by an engineering company who do cylinder heads ?

 

[Malc2098]

Still not heard back from S&S about the dishing, but I suppose it is a BH weekend.

I've had a little play squaring up the plywood sheets that formed its casing and it's nice. Well, anything like this would be nicer that the Record ally table shaking all over the place.

Ian's casing looks identical, even to where holes are drilled in the body.

 

[Bucks woodshop]

I think its basically the same saw with the sip obviously having very expensive paint

I think ill look at itech in future as the extra cost was not inconsequensial

although i did see the wheel kit and sliding table were more expensive on the itech which is weird

Im happy though and the motor is so silent the extractor drowns it out

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[Malc2098]

Mine, too.

 

[Bucks woodshop]

Did they do anything about the dishing malc ?

Also on a side note im looking at a zero clearance insert plate you thought about it yet ? Existing plate is very thin though with no leveling mechanism so im coming up blank with a suitable material that does everything

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[Malc2098]

They asked for photos which I’ve sent, but I’ve not heard back, so I’ll chase them up.

I haven’t thought about the insert plate yet. I’ve got other jobs on. But I did buy a couple of cheap dense plastic chopping boards a sliced them for the grooves.

 

[Bucks woodshop]

You building a sled ? Im toying with shortening the riving knife to just a fraction below blade height so a can make dados on it

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[Rod]

I made my zero insert out of ply.

I also made a one sided sled so don’t have to touch the crown guard etc.

Rod

 

[Bucks woodshop]

I made my zero insert out of ply.

I also made a one sided sled so don’t have to touch the crown guard etc.

Rod

Did you have to plane the ply id say the insert on the 01332 is no more than 2mm i was thinking maybe a polycarb or ali insert

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[Rod]

No mine was much thicker than that though the originals were steel.
Height adjustment by grub screws underneath.
To make the saw cut, weight or clamp the blank down and carefully raise the saw height whilst blade spinning.

Rod