Jeff Frieburg
01-11-2007, 5:10 PM
Get this...
As a long time subscriber to the oft mentioned adage of buying tools that are of the best quality you can afford, I finally worked my way up to acquiring over the past year or so Oneida's Dust Gorilla and a Forrest WWII table saw blade (among other gloats:) ) on the advice of you fellow Creekers.
Last night, while performing a cross-cut operation on my table saw with some maple stock, I heard a loud bang and the short cut-off piece flew out of the blade area like a shot (that's why we wear eye protection). After shutting everything down and inspecting the situation I noticed the left side of my throat plate had a gouge out of it and was bent. After inspecting my prescious blade, I noticed that a carbide tip was missing.
After doing a little CSI - Woodshop, it seems that what happened was that the awesome suction created by the Gorilla around the throat plate had drawn the cut-off piece into the space between the blade and the edge of the right side of the throat plate and it wedged in there causing the blade to be "deflected" into the throat plate on the left side of the blade and ruining a darn good blade.
I've mailed the blade to Forrest for re-tipping and checking for trueness, and I'm looking for a aluminum or plastic throat plate to relace the pressed-steel one that came with my Craftsman table saw.
OF course, the LOML pointed out that all this "quality" I've been buying is supposed help me be a better woodworker. Right? RIGHT?
Any ideas how I can keep this from happening again?
Jeff.
As a long time subscriber to the oft mentioned adage of buying tools that are of the best quality you can afford, I finally worked my way up to acquiring over the past year or so Oneida's Dust Gorilla and a Forrest WWII table saw blade (among other gloats:) ) on the advice of you fellow Creekers.
Last night, while performing a cross-cut operation on my table saw with some maple stock, I heard a loud bang and the short cut-off piece flew out of the blade area like a shot (that's why we wear eye protection). After shutting everything down and inspecting the situation I noticed the left side of my throat plate had a gouge out of it and was bent. After inspecting my prescious blade, I noticed that a carbide tip was missing.
After doing a little CSI - Woodshop, it seems that what happened was that the awesome suction created by the Gorilla around the throat plate had drawn the cut-off piece into the space between the blade and the edge of the right side of the throat plate and it wedged in there causing the blade to be "deflected" into the throat plate on the left side of the blade and ruining a darn good blade.
I've mailed the blade to Forrest for re-tipping and checking for trueness, and I'm looking for a aluminum or plastic throat plate to relace the pressed-steel one that came with my Craftsman table saw.
OF course, the LOML pointed out that all this "quality" I've been buying is supposed help me be a better woodworker. Right? RIGHT?
Any ideas how I can keep this from happening again?
Jeff.