So I'm doing some work for a neighbor at his home. He has a table saw, a much nicer one than mine and it has a soft start feature, I've used it before but not since early March, and I need it today.
So I clean all the stuff off the top, blow it off, plug it in, flip it on and the blade spins about 20 degrees and stops
I turn the power off, unplug it and inspect. The saw blade appears to be half submerged in dust and chips. I flip the saw on its side, remove the access cover. Ugh. Must have been a 3 dozen slivers of wood, cuttings less than 1/8" wide that slipped between the blade and the foot. To top it all off, hardened to concrete consistency, mud dauber nests. And a gallon of congealed sawdust from wet treated wood. I view up by the motor shows all its vents were submerged in sawdust, in fact the whole area and all tilting, raising and lowering mechanisms are just caked in compacted hardened sawdust and woodchips.
I spend a good half hour cleaning the whole saw up with compressed air and various bristle brushes. I'm kind of angry now as I could have probably gotten my own table saw and finished by now. I keep all the wood slivers which had caused the initial logjam as evidence.
I plug it in, turn it on and nothing. I take a thin pine 3 foot long stick, and spin the blade manually with the power on, and the saw kicks on and fires up to full speed, and it is now making this buzzing/ fried grinding bearing type noise and just smells wrong.
Later he comes home and I showed him how his Table saw motor is now fried, and all completely caused by human error. He responds 'who would have though one needed to occasionally inspect and clean a tablesaw to keep it from burning out?' Umm , any half competent carpenter ? How can one not hear the chips rubbing on and slowing the blade. Who would keep cutting things when the blade is not free to spin?
It ruined my day and all further progress.
Bugs me further as they often hire this lesser carpenter to do lesser tasks, and he is a nice guy, but a butcher of a carpenter with no foresight, and has taken a good amount of work from me this year and done a shoddy job on a lot of their stuff. The type of guy who goes through the motions but does not understand the desired result of the motions. Well intentioned and a hard worker, a good helper, but not very bright. Good with concrete and gardening, but when I see this guy unloading lumber, I just don't get it. I know what they pay him, it is about 60% of what I charge, but I take the same or less time for the task and it comes out right and built to last, and I don't freaking ruin their tools in the process.
So I clean all the stuff off the top, blow it off, plug it in, flip it on and the blade spins about 20 degrees and stops
I turn the power off, unplug it and inspect. The saw blade appears to be half submerged in dust and chips. I flip the saw on its side, remove the access cover. Ugh. Must have been a 3 dozen slivers of wood, cuttings less than 1/8" wide that slipped between the blade and the foot. To top it all off, hardened to concrete consistency, mud dauber nests. And a gallon of congealed sawdust from wet treated wood. I view up by the motor shows all its vents were submerged in sawdust, in fact the whole area and all tilting, raising and lowering mechanisms are just caked in compacted hardened sawdust and woodchips.
I spend a good half hour cleaning the whole saw up with compressed air and various bristle brushes. I'm kind of angry now as I could have probably gotten my own table saw and finished by now. I keep all the wood slivers which had caused the initial logjam as evidence.
I plug it in, turn it on and nothing. I take a thin pine 3 foot long stick, and spin the blade manually with the power on, and the saw kicks on and fires up to full speed, and it is now making this buzzing/ fried grinding bearing type noise and just smells wrong.
Later he comes home and I showed him how his Table saw motor is now fried, and all completely caused by human error. He responds 'who would have though one needed to occasionally inspect and clean a tablesaw to keep it from burning out?' Umm , any half competent carpenter ? How can one not hear the chips rubbing on and slowing the blade. Who would keep cutting things when the blade is not free to spin?
It ruined my day and all further progress.
Bugs me further as they often hire this lesser carpenter to do lesser tasks, and he is a nice guy, but a butcher of a carpenter with no foresight, and has taken a good amount of work from me this year and done a shoddy job on a lot of their stuff. The type of guy who goes through the motions but does not understand the desired result of the motions. Well intentioned and a hard worker, a good helper, but not very bright. Good with concrete and gardening, but when I see this guy unloading lumber, I just don't get it. I know what they pay him, it is about 60% of what I charge, but I take the same or less time for the task and it comes out right and built to last, and I don't freaking ruin their tools in the process.
