Charnwood Table Saw W616

[Lonsdale73]

I hear there are some Charnwood users on here - any with experience of their W616 who can guide a complete novice as to how to set it up to obtain straight / square cuts?

 

[blackrodd]

Hello Lonsdale 73. Whilst awaiting for another owner to to arrive and help you get on with you're project.
I have just googled you're Charnwood W616 table saw. Did I see that two models are available,
Which model did you get?
I read the two owners reports, which were not too bad
How much assembly did you have to do to be able to use it?
I have just gone over you're previous posts and can see that something is really out of alignment .
What length timber are you cutting, and do you have the bed extensions fitted?
This looks to be a very useful saw and with the extensions, should be a versatile machine, but for light duty work.
Bags of power and a good sawing capacity of 3" at 90 deg,
If you start banging logs and firewood on it it would soon suffer.
Please reply and remind us how long you have owned it, and what problems you are experiencing, when ripping and
also panel cutting.
Regards Rodders

 

[Lonsdale73]

Good morning Rodders

Thanks for that but think you may have been looking at another model which does come in two variants.

Assembly consisted of bolting the base together, attaching the saw to the base and fitting the extension tables. It arrived late, missing some parts, without a manual and slightly damaged. With hindsight, I know I should have sent it back but they were extremely reluctant to collect and having already forsaken two days' work, I didn't want to waste at least two more while it was collected and evaluated before sending a replacement. They did (eventually) replace the missing and damaged parts. The manual I downloaded and queried the reference to two supplied spanners for blade change only to be told the manual was new and they hadn't yet started supplying the spanners. One of the missing parts was the mitre gauge and through my own ignorance and inexperience I hadn't realised it doesn't use a 'standard' mitre slot. Despite the union jack sticker, turns out these aren't made in the uk and it seems impossible to source lengths of runners for jigs or sleds. I so wish I had found this forum BEFORE I purchased.

 

[lurker]

This is the same saw as mine.
I paid 50 quid less than cat price as I had an ex trade show one. I do have the benefit of them being about 20 mins away so could collect.
I doubt there is such a thing as standard t slots but funnily enough I have just made a few for jigs simple enough to do.
Even at full price it's a cheap saw and good value for money and has turned out to be far better than I had expected
I thought everyone realised anything like this comes from china.

 

[Lonsdale73]

You might regret that offer of popping along the A46!

 

[marcros]

American spec saws tend to have the standard mitre slots, but very few on the UK market has these, and nothing as far as I am aware within your price range, so I wouldnt beat yourself up. Just make a hardwood, aluminium or plastic runner up as required.

 

[lurker]

You might regret that offer of popping along the A46!

You would be very welcome.
Not sure that's good English !

 

[Lonsdale73]

Not sure that's good English !

That's alright - I'm neither good nor English

 

[Lonsdale73]

Just a brief update on the saw. I had to trim the width of some laminate flooring and thought I might as well use the saw for this. By chance, the first cut lined up with a clear line that run the full length of the piece and the blade followed it damn near perfect from start to finish so maybe not the table at fault after all. Either that or by some chance te line was out by the exact same amount and I think there's more chance of me winning the lottery.