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« on: February 25, 2012, 10:28 PM »
I have just bought a CS 70 trimming saw with sliding tables and extensions. I am looking for any advice or information on how others have setup their saws.

There is no information in the manual on alignment, and as they are not available in the US no helpful extra manuals or much discussion on them.

Traditional table saw alignments to the mitre slot seem more difficult as the slot in the table is not for the mitre gauge.

I have seen pictures on this page http://www.fine-tools.com/incra-base-assembly.html which show an incra mitre gauge being used, it seems that the slot has been widened and the v profiles cut to allow the mitre bar to move in and out. As I've only just bought it (and the price!) I'm reluctant to start hacking at it to modify it.

If anyone has any advice on setup and alignment I would appreciate it if they could share it.

Duncan
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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2012, 04:51 AM »
Duncan,

Welcome to the FOG.  Hopefully one of our many international members will be able to offer some help.

Peter
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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2012, 06:34 AM »
Quote from: fluid on February 25, 2012, 10:28 PM
I have just bought a CS 70 trimming saw with sliding tables and extensions. I am looking for any advice or information on how others have setup their saws.

There is no information in the manual on alignment, and as they are not available in the US no helpful extra manuals or much discussion on them.

Traditional table saw alignments to the mitre slot seem more difficult as the slot in the table is not for the mitre gauge.

I have seen pictures on this page http://www.fine-tools.com/incra-base-assembly.html which show an incra mitre gauge being used, it seems that the slot has been widened and the v profiles cut to allow the mitre bar to move in and out. As I've only just bought it (and the price!) I'm reluctant to start hacking at it to modify it.

If anyone has any advice on setup and alignment I would appreciate it if they could share it.

Duncan


It should be alligned perfect out of the box. If not, I'd call festool.

What exactly is out of allignment?
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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2012, 08:50 AM »
As for the setup, the installation for extensiontables is pretty straightforward, just follow the installation instructions, they only need to be alligned the first time. I don't have a sliding table on mine, so I can't comment on that.

If you also have the wheel set, you have to make sure the wheels are facing towards the rear (as in the attached picture), in the installation instructions that came with my saw they were facing inward, towards the front of the saw,
but that way they keep the rear legs of the saw off the ground all the time, and the saw is less stable, and the legs can't be folded up properly.

The fence shouldn't need allignment as j123j already mentioned, but it can be adjusted, it's basicly the same fence as on the mft3, only the profiles have a different length. This video shows how it can be adjusted at around 9 minutes 8 seconds into the video.
MFT 3 setup
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« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2012, 05:58 AM »
Thanks for the replies

I'm sure that it will cut well as it is, I was trying to see if anyone had any tips for how to check to see if everything was as it should be

When I set up my mft there was a lot of information on how others had achieved everything being square including how to check to see if everything is OK

My TS 75 was accurate out of the box but I still checked it first and was able to find information on how to do so

As the CS 70 is more like a table saw I was thinking along the lines of checking that the blade has minimal runout etc but without a standard mitre slot generic info on aligning table saws doesn't really help

I'm 750 kms from my Festool Dealer most of which is on a unsealed road, so taking things back is not really an option! This is one of the reasons I have invested in festool as everything I have bought so far has been excellent

I don't think anything is wrong with my saw but I was hoping to be able to confirm that with some measurements

Duncan
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