I think most of the dust you can see fell on the hose as opposed to being sucked away by it. Pivoting the table on these is quite tricky, but the angles are accurate:ĭust extraction hose, extraction as good as any other bandsaw which is to say pretty poor. I haven't timed the stop, so it may not meet HSE rules for the workplace if that is important to you:Īngle marks for the pivoting table. This means that the brake is no longer functional, or indeed attached, but it still stops reasonably quickly. When I bought the saw the motor had recently been replaced with this new 1.5hp unit, converting it from three phase to single phase. The tyre is actually painted yellow, but I would say there is at least 10mm or so of rubber left. This doesn't affect usage, you can see here the widest blade the saw can sensibly use correctly placed on the crown of the tyre and there is still a little gap between blade and groove, but if it bothered you there is plenty of tyre material left if you wanted to flatten the tyre with abrasives:Ī view of the offending blade guard and wheel. Unfortunately the saw has the classic 352 fault, which is a groove cut in the top tyre because of incorrect setting of the blade guard. As you can see the 1/4 inch hasn't even been used yet, as I was given a little 9 inch Delta which is great for curves. 1/4 inch, 1/2 M42 Bi-metal (very nice) and 3/4 inch SuperTuff FastCut (also very nice). The Kreg resaw guide in action cutting some neat veneers from what I think is brown oak: Kreg fence comes with the surprisingly useful micro-adjuster, excellent for getting veneers just so: Next, a photo of the pointy end showing the nice toys and the generally rust-free nature of the table: You also get to see the palatial splendor of my workshop for free: Lots of photos with this one, as it's a really nice saw and worth a look.Īnd another from a slightly different angle. At the moment I have a 16 amp C-Form plug on it, but it'll run from a standard 13 amp socket, and I'll fit one if you need it Recently replaced motor, single speed, 240v single phase.

We had to machine a pivot axle that actually fitted the hole Startrite had provided, we suspected a mix of imperial and metric tooling on their part. I've rebuilt the top trunion as it was incredibly loose and prone to vibration despite not being worn. I'm including the mobile base, 3 excellent Tuffsaws blades, a genuine Startrite mitre gauge (hard to find, wacky slot size) and a Kreg fence with resaw guide. This a fully fettled 352, with a fair load of extras. As it's from the era of elfin' safety it would appear to have benefited from being unbothered by any scholar's hands. I'm selling my 1995 Startrite 352S, an ex-school machine that I bought a couple of years ago.

Supertuff fastcut