Recent content by badatwoodworking

I have that bandsaw. You definitely don't need 100mm for it as the dust extraction is rubbish anyway. Sometimes I use it without dust extraction and there's not a whole lot of difference...

With thicknessing?

Thanks for the suggestions and instructions everybody. Axminster support asked me to take a photo of the mounting bracket and I've since learnt that mine was unusually out of parallel to the point shims aren't really going to do anything. The saw is going back.

Hi everybody, Does anyone here own this? I'm quite tempted by it but it's really hard to find any detailed reviews. The main thing I'm interested in learning is whether I should expect any snipe with this kind of design. I've got a lunchbox thicknesser that has an absurd amount and I'm getting...

Thanks! The problem I'm having with the riving knife is that the shim design seems to imply that the knife is at least parallel to the blade, just on a different plane. Mine's the wrong angle both vertically and horizontally, so trying to get shims into the right spots without them all falling...

Hi everyone, Finally registered after a long time lurking. Today I received an Axminster TS-200, which is my first table saw. I've spent the last few hours getting frustrated trying to get the riving knife to sit in line with the blade. The mechanism of adjustment is a bunch of tin shims that...