Clear Splinter Guard Replacement ?

[Just F Me]

Hello,

I have a Makita SP6000 track saw and a Festool Rail.  I recently needed to change my blade and needed to get one quickly so I went to Home Depot and picked up a 6.5" Diablo 40T blade for $20.  I've have a Diablo blade on my 10" Miter saw, 60T, and it's awesome.  The blade that comes with the Makita is a 48T, costs like $50 bucks off Amazon.

I believe the thickness of the blade from the Diablo vs the Makita is different....Should I have to replace the clear splinter guard on my guide rails? 

I seem to have A TON more dust than before and very slight tear out on the top of my wood pieces.  I never realized how much of a difference 8T makes either because the Diablo blade doesn't cut as nice as the Makita  [sad]

 

[peter halle]

I have no experience with any of the products you mention except for the guiderails.  You might want to clamp your rail to a piece of scrap and then use a fine pointed or mechanical pencil to trace a line along the splinter guard.  Make a cut and before you remove the rail check to see if the pencil line is still there.  If so, replace the guard.  If not, then replacing it will not help correct your situation.

Peter

 

[rst]

When I needed to make sure that my 55 & 75 kerfs were inline, I clamped my rail and then I  plunged the 55 making a small kerf, maybe 1" long, close enough that my dial caliper could reach from the edge of the material.  I then plunged my 75 close to that kerf, again 1" long.  Using the dial caliper I adjusted the 75 until the kerfs were identical from the edge.  You can do the same test by changing blades and making the kerf test.

 

[Bob Wolfe]

you might be able to remove the strip and move it over a touch and it will likely restick.

 

[MGB]

Wouldn't any blade run in the same location as the old? Being that its bolted tight to the arbor and kerf thickness wouldn't matter?

I believe all track saws use thin kerf blades but could be wrong.

 

[Just F Me]

I used a Diablo 6.5" 40T blade...It didn't say on the blade the kerf thickness.  My Makita blade was 2.2mm

 

[carlb40]

A lot of the freud blades have a 2.4mm kerf. That is one reason i went with trend blades as the kerf is 2.2mm like the festool blades.
To MGB while the blades themselves will be in the same position, the kerf ie thickness of the TCT teeth will be different.
So a blade with a 2.4mm kerf will cut 0.1mm closer to the rail compared to a 2.2mm kerf blade.

 

[Just F Me]

Obviously, this is already happening, but the Diablo blade also makes a ton of dust compared to the Makita blade.  I'm actually kinda disappointed.  I have diablo bits and a diablo blade for my miter saw and they're great.