Okay, I'm cutting along, minding my own business, trimming a 3/4" thick German beech panel with my 55 and the Festool universal blade and wammo-powee this happens.
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This is a picture of the offcut which was about 1/2" wide off a rail and style side panel for a refrigerator surround that is 32x93. I was trimming the style that butts against the wall as the first step in scribing. The the cut was well supported and the 106" guide was clamped to the panel and the panel was in turn clamped to the cutting platform. I can find no defect with the guide, looks straight and true. The off cut looks quite a bit worse than the keeper side but it is still pretty bad. The cut is not great to start with, some fairly prominent swirls.
I knew something had happened because it made a tinny wang sound, sort of a ting or something like it. I didn't stop because it was cutting fine, no burning, no struggle.
I can't find anything wrong with the saw. There's a small amount of side to side play in the plunge but that's be so for a long time. There doesn't seem to be any wobble at the arbor. The blade is not pristine, there's a bit of buildup of gunk but not terrible.
It's not the end of the world in this case because I was about to hit the panel with a belt sander to get down to the scribe line. Yes, a belt sander because I haven't sprung for a RAS yet.
This is not the only time it's happened but it is by far the worst case. I've had the universal blade on for a long time because I haven't done any serious plywood cutting in several months. Nothing feels broken, I went on and trimmed panels for a dishwasher and for a trash compactor later in the day and nothing like this happened.
Haven't talked to tech support yet because, as I said, it just doesn't feel like anything is broken.
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This is a picture of the offcut which was about 1/2" wide off a rail and style side panel for a refrigerator surround that is 32x93. I was trimming the style that butts against the wall as the first step in scribing. The the cut was well supported and the 106" guide was clamped to the panel and the panel was in turn clamped to the cutting platform. I can find no defect with the guide, looks straight and true. The off cut looks quite a bit worse than the keeper side but it is still pretty bad. The cut is not great to start with, some fairly prominent swirls.
I knew something had happened because it made a tinny wang sound, sort of a ting or something like it. I didn't stop because it was cutting fine, no burning, no struggle.
I can't find anything wrong with the saw. There's a small amount of side to side play in the plunge but that's be so for a long time. There doesn't seem to be any wobble at the arbor. The blade is not pristine, there's a bit of buildup of gunk but not terrible.
It's not the end of the world in this case because I was about to hit the panel with a belt sander to get down to the scribe line. Yes, a belt sander because I haven't sprung for a RAS yet.
This is not the only time it's happened but it is by far the worst case. I've had the universal blade on for a long time because I haven't done any serious plywood cutting in several months. Nothing feels broken, I went on and trimmed panels for a dishwasher and for a trash compactor later in the day and nothing like this happened.
Haven't talked to tech support yet because, as I said, it just doesn't feel like anything is broken.
