Anyone bought an Ozito Tablesaw?

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Smix

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#1549548 10-May-2016 21:59

The rail is listed at 1400 so lengthwise she'll be right - max depth is 55mm so should be good. The kit seems to also come with the guide rail kit which is $35 so you seem to be saving a few dollars there.

@mdf I do plan on documenting my experience with this...it seems easy enough but working in IT has taught me that that's never the case...think of it as a lessons learnt :D

Settlement date with my place is this Friday, so looking at making a start in the next few weeks. A few more searches for machineryhouse seems to bring out legit buyers in the NZ woodworking world, and it's sort of comforting to see that their office shows up in streetview. Could be onto a winner here!

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#1549549 10-May-2016 22:07

Smix:

Settlement date with my place is this Friday, so looking at making a start in the next few weeks. A few more searches for machineryhouse seems to bring out legit buyers in the NZ woodworking world, and it's sort of comforting to see that their office shows up in streetview. Could be onto a winner here!

Mate, you're dreaming! We settled nearly two weeks ago and we're still dealing with the boxes (and looking for the iron... I'm running out of shirts!). Haven't started any projects yet (I don't count smoke alarms and picture hooks).

I may however have built a little fort:

Good luck with the projects!

Smix

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#1549550 10-May-2016 22:10

mdf:

Smix:

Settlement date with my place is this Friday, so looking at making a start in the next few weeks. A few more searches for machineryhouse seems to bring out legit buyers in the NZ woodworking world, and it's sort of comforting to see that their office shows up in streetview. Could be onto a winner here!

Mate, you're dreaming! We settled nearly two weeks ago and we're still dealing with the boxes (and looking for the iron... I'm running out of shirts!). Haven't started any projects yet (I don't count smoke alarms and picture hooks).

I may however have built a little fort:

Good luck with the projects!

Haha, forgot to mention it's to buy the place we're currently living in! Just need to recover from the various expenses and then we're good to go No boxes required here...although I do envy your fort...

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#1549602 11-May-2016 06:36

A track/plunge saw looks great for sheets, but I wonder how difficult it would be to clamp the rail to a narrow plank e.g. floorboard.

A few years ago I bought a $300 ryobi table saw. I found it very hard to get the fence set up parallel to the blade, which made cuts less accurate but more importantly increased the risk of my work piece being kicked back into me or shooting off in a random direction. This is bloody scary!

I sold the saw, saved up for a couple of years, and got a $1400 dewalt, which I'm very happy with.

Bear in mind how dangerous and powerful the cheap ones can be.

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#1549651 11-May-2016 09:40

Ripping 50mm thick timber is hard work for a hand-held circular saw. You want a higher powered saw, the right blade and to take your time.

Stu: It looks like it's cheaper to buy the saw and rail as separate items?

Could you rip a 100x50 or 75x50 lengthwise with that?

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#1549731 11-May-2016 11:16

I bought one of these used flip-saws on TM for about $400. Not exactly that model, but close enough.

Kind of old - but they're around. The owner had lost the riving knife, no problem to pick up a replacement, though it took a while for a local agent to get back to me - rather crazy as I gave up after a couple of days, and had ordered and received the knife sent airmail from the UK before they did reply, but that's service from some NZ folks for you. Shoot me OSH, but now I've got the riving knife I tend not to use it.

It'll rip wet 90x45 framing no problem. I think max depth for a vertical cut is about 95mm - though it'll probably struggle on that. I bought a thin kerf ripping blade for it, will swap blades if ripping a lot, it's probably better than the standard 40 tooth blade I leave in it, even if just for less sawdust. In compound mitre mode it's fine - not as technical as what's sold these days, but solid and does anything I've asked of it. A little bit heavy - not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing though. One small annoyance is that the table height is not the same when it's in bench mode or mitre mode. You need to rotate the saw 90 deg if you're working on long pieces in a confined area, swapping from ripping to cutting - that's no problem, but you also have to adjust height of the roller stands if you're using them, which can get annoying.

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#1554625 18-May-2016 10:01

Little update, after all that great information from anyone...I don't actually need a saw.

The stuff we've bought is from the Quick Step Livyn range. This stuff is a vinyl and can be cut with a stanley knife!

Again, thank you to everyone for your input!

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