Lars Stole wrote:

I have this saw and I'm very happy with it. Seems like a good value.

One of my hand wheels didn't have the center punched out. I had to
punch it and drill it out to get it to mount.

Alignment of the top to the blade was very good on my saw. I checked it
with a dial indicator and it was within .001.

The yellow aline a cut plug is just some lame marketing crap. It refers
to the two hex head screws on the top that allow you to adjust the
stops for blade tilt.

The yellow aline a cut plug is just some lame marketing crap. It refers
to the two hex head screws on the top that allow you to adjust the stops
for blade tilt.

I think this is different.............

Sears has been putting their align a cut dot on saws for 30 years or more.
My old Craftsman table saw had it when I bought it in 1974. It was a yellow
plastic plug set into the table top. About 1" in diameter, it was centered
on the blade and about 2"-3" in front of the blade insert. You could cross
cut a test piece, return it to the dot and make a fine pencil mark on the
dot. By aligning the dot mark with your measured mark on the stock it made
repetitive crosscutting or dadoing a little easier.

Frankly, considering all of Craftsmans "unique" and often useless marketing
features the dot had it's merits. When doing simple cuts, with no need for
absolute precision it worked pretty well. I occasionally find myself using
a soft lead pencil to duplicate its utility on the polished top of my
cabinet saw.

"Lars Stole" wrote in message
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The December issue of WOOD mag includes the 22124 TS among the "latest and
greatest" in its "Hot New Tools for 2005" feature :-)


-- Steve
www.ApacheTrail.com/ww/




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"Lars Stole" wrote in message
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Excecpt for the outfeed table, it's together...

I don't know what it is they use at that factory to serve as ersatz
cosmoline, but it works and it's great that WD 40 dissolves it on contact.
With that said, it's also great that the parts and lieces are packed
together in a really sensible manner! Kudos to Orion / Craftsman on this
point! It made assembly of the model #22124 saw so much easier!

A Word of Warning, though... the instructions do indeed state (quite
clearly, in fact) that it's a two-person job to hang the cast iron wings. I
did it alone -- both of them! -- but it took its toll from me -- those
suckers _are_ heavy and holding them up while lining up those bolts to
thread into the main table is just not an easy task.. IF you have the
stubborn determination to do it yourself, then just know that it's possible
(but it would be a whole lot easier and likely more fun to have a buddy
about).

Once the wings were attached, the rest of the assembly actually went along
rather well. The book is pretty much clear and straightforward (something
that actually surprised me)!

The greatest areas of growls came from the part where I began to install the
Biessemeyer fence. Either someone in the tech writing department at Sears
***OR*** someone up the street from me at the Biessemeyer offices had darned
well better get there act(s) together and decide just exactly where some
certain holes should be in order to line up with the instructions!

I suspect the Biessemeyer people are to blame on this point.

Afterall, my fence was (quite obviously!) packaged up and delivered
_before_the_paint_was_dry_!!!

Yep: _before_the_paint_was_dry_!!!

(How the heck else would one explain three separate places on three separate
major pieces where the cream-colored paint was sort of mooshed into a
(now-dried) puddle next to a bare metal spot that obviously should have had
some paint on it?)

Also, there really is far too much factory paint in the pre-drilled holes
that cause too many minor uh... adjustments (yeah! that's the word!) to be
necessary. There is also the Groan! about the instructions where they call
for the "notch" in the front mounting rail (bar or whatever you want to call
the thing that supports to "tube").

You see, the instructions say that the "notch" is supposed to line up with
the right-hand side of the saw blade. Well, ain't that just the sweetest
thing ever?!?!! If it is supposed to line up the way the writer says, then
the folks at Biessemeyer need to learn how to drill holes just a wee bit
better!

Hey! the whole thing really IS close (within a few fractions of millimeters
or so) but nonetheless so bloody far off per the instructions that you might
think you're going bonkers trying to do it "right"!! But hang on! These
gripes I'm expressing are more than likely isolated to just one day at the
paint booth rather than pandemic. At least I hope so (but I doubt it and
Biessemeyer better wake up PDQ.

This saw is nothing like the "crapsman" of the recent past!!!! It IS
sweet.
(Hell, it's better than sweet -- It has to be -- my wife gave me mine for
_her_ Birthday!!!!)

Once the minor "items" were settled out and I plugged it in and turned it on
for the first time. I thought I heard the --- well I know I'm silly but it
might have been -- the Brandenburg Concerto.

That motor is solid and almost quiet! The blade just whisks the air rather
than chop at it. The miter guides and stuff are downright FUN to play with
until you figure out when you'll need / use any one of the oh-so-many
variables to pick from/

Oh yeah. The CUT of the blade -- and the accuracy of the angle??? ... Dead
ON and eat-your-heart-out-accurate. I hope to never hear from those Ryobi BT
3x wonk-heads who think that toy even comes close: it doesn't. I know --
First Hand.

-- Steve
www.ApacheTrail.com/ww/

Wrong begins with Dubya ~!~




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"Steve" wrote in message

Afterall, my fence was (quite obviously!) packaged up and delivered
_before_the_paint_was_dry_!!!

Yep: _before_the_paint_was_dry_!!!

(How the heck else would one explain three separate places on three
separate major pieces where the cream-colored paint was sort of mooshed
into a (now-dried) puddle next to a bare metal spot that obviously should
have had some paint on it?)

Having seen many industrial paint lines, I doubt it was not dry. My guess
is that a solvent got onto the packing material or on to the parts after the
paint area.
Ed