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I recently bought a Safety Speed Cut C-4 vertical panel saw, at a yard sale. ($300 :smile: )
There is no way to line the blade up with a cut line. The blade shroud prevents it. They have an optional blade shroud, that has a vacuum hookup. It looks like if you took off the vac hose, you could look thru the hole and see the blade. Before I paid $200 for the kit, I would just cut a hole and weld on a piece of tubing for a vac hose.
Has anyone rigged a simple hold down? Haven't used mine yet, and not sure if a hold down is needed, cutting 1/2 or 3/4 ply.
Also wondering if anyone has made any jigs, etc for the saw. They sell a mid level fence, for cutting small panels at waist height ($400+) Stop bar gauge, with 8 flip stops ($500+) The stop bar gauge looks like it would save a lot of production cutting time.
I'm interested in shop building the hold down, fence, and adjustable stops.
If anyone has done any mods to their panel saw, I would like to hear about them. Pics would be great as usual.
Anxious to get it cutting!
Thanks
There is no way to line the blade up with a cut line. The blade shroud prevents it. They have an optional blade shroud, that has a vacuum hookup. It looks like if you took off the vac hose, you could look thru the hole and see the blade. Before I paid $200 for the kit, I would just cut a hole and weld on a piece of tubing for a vac hose.
Has anyone rigged a simple hold down? Haven't used mine yet, and not sure if a hold down is needed, cutting 1/2 or 3/4 ply.
Also wondering if anyone has made any jigs, etc for the saw. They sell a mid level fence, for cutting small panels at waist height ($400+) Stop bar gauge, with 8 flip stops ($500+) The stop bar gauge looks like it would save a lot of production cutting time.
I'm interested in shop building the hold down, fence, and adjustable stops.
If anyone has done any mods to their panel saw, I would like to hear about them. Pics would be great as usual.
Anxious to get it cutting!
Thanks