I'm in a custom mill works shop. I purchased a ts55 back in February. It has served me well so far and love it. A couple weeks ago I was scribing a 6' tall vanity column to a wall. This required me to rip the face frame. The face frame is 1" thick maple. I was cross cutting this stuff on an MFT without any issues whatsoever. But on this rip the saw struggled very hard. It almost bogged out a couple times but a lot of patience got thru it. Maybe the blade is getting dull, but if that's the case, wouldn't it struggle thru crosscuts too?
Fast forward to this past Tuesday. I was tasked with making these wall dividers out of white oak 3/4" plywood. They are essentially hollow box sleeves that will slide onto a steel frame. The are 7' tall 42" wide and 3" thick with miters.
I set up for the first bevel cut and begin.
I'm using 2-55" track sections saw speed is all the way up using the stock blade that doesn't seem dull at all but it bogged out thru the entire cut. Weird (kinda fishery) smells but no smoke came from the motor vents. At one point after the saw bogged out the worst the motor would give a slight humming noise and the blade would spin slightly but any load sptopped it dead while the motor still hummed strangely. I stopped, waited about 20 seconds and tried it again it sounded normal at this point and finished the cut. Lots of burn on the part side, minimal burn on the off cut piece. I'm on a very stable, flat bench with an MDF top. I was using track clamps so there was no movement. Maybe the track mis aligned. Maybe technique issue? Maybe a bad saw. I had to finish all the bevel cuts with the shops makita track saw. My saw was cutting the 90degree cuts just fine while the makita did the bevels.
Do I have a bad/faulty saw? Or do I need to go back to track saw schhol
Fast forward to this past Tuesday. I was tasked with making these wall dividers out of white oak 3/4" plywood. They are essentially hollow box sleeves that will slide onto a steel frame. The are 7' tall 42" wide and 3" thick with miters.
I set up for the first bevel cut and begin.
I'm using 2-55" track sections saw speed is all the way up using the stock blade that doesn't seem dull at all but it bogged out thru the entire cut. Weird (kinda fishery) smells but no smoke came from the motor vents. At one point after the saw bogged out the worst the motor would give a slight humming noise and the blade would spin slightly but any load sptopped it dead while the motor still hummed strangely. I stopped, waited about 20 seconds and tried it again it sounded normal at this point and finished the cut. Lots of burn on the part side, minimal burn on the off cut piece. I'm on a very stable, flat bench with an MDF top. I was using track clamps so there was no movement. Maybe the track mis aligned. Maybe technique issue? Maybe a bad saw. I had to finish all the bevel cuts with the shops makita track saw. My saw was cutting the 90degree cuts just fine while the makita did the bevels.
Do I have a bad/faulty saw? Or do I need to go back to track saw schhol
