Hi all,
This is my first attempt at wirting a review, so apologies in advance for any mistakes.
A little background first.
Approx 18 months ago, we vacated our home office, and moved into new office space on the local Industrial estate, leaving a lovely 14ft x 28ft fully insulated, well lite and wired out shed, available for use as my workshop.
After cleraing out all of the office furniture, I am embarrassed to say I went a little spend crazy, and made a lot of expensive mistakes.
One of them being the table saw. At the time I bought a low end Fox saw from Rutlands, and regretted it almost from the moment I opened the package.
The table bed was 15" x 21", the riving knife was always out of line, and the fence was a joke, in short a hobbist saw, but the money had been spent, so it was put up and shut up until I could afford to replace it.
That time is now, what a joy, I have spent some where around 2 months looking at as many reviews as I could find, reading about nearly every saw bench Axminster / Rutlands / loads of others I can't remeber, until I'm blue in the face, but none of them ticked all the boxes, until I found the Deft T30 from Lyndhurst.
My criteria by this time due to finding the INCRA system, so the list was.
1. Must be able to fit the INCRA system to it.
2. Single Pedastool base, so it can be mounted on a mobile base.
3. single phase 240v supply, no more than 16amp.
4. No sliding table, the workshop is not big enough.
Fairly simple list of requirements I think you'll agree, the T30 met them all, along with a 5 yr gaurantee.
After a few sleepless nights worrying about making the same mistake again, I finally plucked up the courage and placed the order, 4 days later, a MASSIVE pallet arrived on the back of a mid sized lorry.
1hr, 3 men, and a lot of effort, got the pallet dis-assembled, and moved around the house, up the steps, and into the workshop.
I am sorry to say that I didn't think to take any pics of that bit, or until I hit my first problem, but at least I did remember to get some.
The packaging was superb, in fact it took about 30 - 40 mins to get all of the packaging removed. Apart from the usuall polystyrene / carboard, there was also a lot of screwed ply to hold it in place on the pallet, as well as a cast iron brackect holding the motor assembly in place.
After getting the saw onto my Axminster trolly base, I read through the instruction manual, which was resonable, checked the parts list, fresh cup of tea, and I began.
At this point I should say that my Father is a keen woodworking spectator and a major tool enthusiast (ex fitter and turner, tool making department none the less) and was with me from the start.
Our first impressions of the table saw were of pure delight, the saw exudes a quality and sturdy build, and was just begging to be used.
The first job was to fit the two cast iron extension tables, and as mentioned before, this is when I remebered to start taking pictures, so here goes.
OK, dead stop, I have no clue how to upload a picture to this post, can someone help.
This is my first attempt at wirting a review, so apologies in advance for any mistakes.
A little background first.
Approx 18 months ago, we vacated our home office, and moved into new office space on the local Industrial estate, leaving a lovely 14ft x 28ft fully insulated, well lite and wired out shed, available for use as my workshop.
After cleraing out all of the office furniture, I am embarrassed to say I went a little spend crazy, and made a lot of expensive mistakes.
One of them being the table saw. At the time I bought a low end Fox saw from Rutlands, and regretted it almost from the moment I opened the package.
The table bed was 15" x 21", the riving knife was always out of line, and the fence was a joke, in short a hobbist saw, but the money had been spent, so it was put up and shut up until I could afford to replace it.
That time is now, what a joy, I have spent some where around 2 months looking at as many reviews as I could find, reading about nearly every saw bench Axminster / Rutlands / loads of others I can't remeber, until I'm blue in the face, but none of them ticked all the boxes, until I found the Deft T30 from Lyndhurst.
My criteria by this time due to finding the INCRA system, so the list was.
1. Must be able to fit the INCRA system to it.
2. Single Pedastool base, so it can be mounted on a mobile base.
3. single phase 240v supply, no more than 16amp.
4. No sliding table, the workshop is not big enough.
Fairly simple list of requirements I think you'll agree, the T30 met them all, along with a 5 yr gaurantee.
After a few sleepless nights worrying about making the same mistake again, I finally plucked up the courage and placed the order, 4 days later, a MASSIVE pallet arrived on the back of a mid sized lorry.
1hr, 3 men, and a lot of effort, got the pallet dis-assembled, and moved around the house, up the steps, and into the workshop.
I am sorry to say that I didn't think to take any pics of that bit, or until I hit my first problem, but at least I did remember to get some.
The packaging was superb, in fact it took about 30 - 40 mins to get all of the packaging removed. Apart from the usuall polystyrene / carboard, there was also a lot of screwed ply to hold it in place on the pallet, as well as a cast iron brackect holding the motor assembly in place.
After getting the saw onto my Axminster trolly base, I read through the instruction manual, which was resonable, checked the parts list, fresh cup of tea, and I began.
At this point I should say that my Father is a keen woodworking spectator and a major tool enthusiast (ex fitter and turner, tool making department none the less) and was with me from the start.
Our first impressions of the table saw were of pure delight, the saw exudes a quality and sturdy build, and was just begging to be used.
The first job was to fit the two cast iron extension tables, and as mentioned before, this is when I remebered to start taking pictures, so here goes.
OK, dead stop, I have no clue how to upload a picture to this post, can someone help.
