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  • Well she finally gave out on me. As I was finishing up the rabbit hutch in the last

  • project. I was building the stands. and she just stopped one day. So it was off to the

  • home improvement store to buy a new table saw. Now if I had my way, I'd drop two thousand

  • dollars on a saw stop but, I don't have two thousand dollars, I have four kids. That is

  • a lot of college. Alright so lets open up this new box and see what we're looking at.

  • This is the porter cable Jobsite table saw model number PCB222TS. Here on top we seem

  • to have the owners manual. That looks to be the blade guard. and this is the miter gauge.

  • Let me see what is in here, looks like I'm going to need some scissors. These look to

  • be the hand wheels to raise and lower the blade as well as the angle adjustment. These

  • are the wrenches to change the blades. And the rest of this just looks like screws, nuts

  • and bolts for the assembly of the stand. Here is the riving knife. It'll be nice to have

  • one of those. Obviously the rip fence. A few more items over here. Looks like the push

  • stick. Insert. And anti kick back paws. Alright let me remove this styrofoam. Looks like it's

  • caught on something over here. Alright and here we have the actual table saw unit itself.

  • I'll set that aside and take a closer look at that in just a moment. This looks to be

  • the roll around stand. Now I'm not too interested in this aspect of it. If you have seen any

  • number of my other videos you know I have a DIY Table saw workstation and I'll just

  • be installing this new table saw in it. So, the stand I will probably use for something

  • else at some later time. Let's see what else we have in here. This is the outfeed support.

  • Surprisingly it came with some. And the rest of this stuff just looks to be things for

  • the stand which as I already said, you know, I'm not going to mess with right now. Ok,

  • so here is the back of the unit and you can see there is a place to wrap the cord but

  • more improtantly there is a dust collection port. Again, if you have been around my channel

  • for a while you know that I've been looking for a viable solution to dust collection.

  • This might take care of that problem. Looks like I'm going to need an adapter for the

  • shop vac though. The rip fence seems to slide ok. For now anyway. Well see how that holds

  • up once dust starts collecting in this front rail. However, that may be the least of my

  • concerns. I'll have to check here in just a little bit too see if this is going to lock

  • down parrallel. This particular unit comes with a thirty inch rip capacity on the right

  • side of the blade. Eleven on the left. I like that. Alright let me install these hand wheels,

  • that way I can check them. That is actually a very smooth operation, I'm actually a little surprised. You can see

  • on the side here the spot for extra blade storage. This is the angle hand wheel.

  • Alright lets set this up. First the blade. Remove the arbor. and the flange. This probably

  • falls under the common sense catagory but when installing a blade I always reference

  • what direction the teeth go. They should point towards me. If I'm standing in front of the

  • saw like I am now. I never go by the writing on the side of the blade cause some manufacturers

  • will change that up.

  • Now this is the knob to install the riving knife. I'll loosen that up a little bit. Now

  • this red button here. If I press this in it will allow me to insert the knife. Then I can tighten that up. Now

  • the alignment on my unit was a little off and after making a few test cuts I felt was

  • best if I made a few small adjustments on that. So I flip the blade to fourty five degrees

  • and there are these two larger lock screws. Then there are some smaller set screws. So

  • if I loosen these larger ones up first. that will allow me to adjust the smaller ones.

  • Now I have to admit. There is a bit of trial and error here. Then reinstall the riving

  • knife. Bring it back to its zero position. and check it's alignment. The table saw insert

  • can be adjusted or leveled whatever you want to call it by these four set screws.

  • Now the ninty and fourty five degree positive stops are set and adjusted from underneath

  • the unit. Mine did need a minor adjustment as you see here. I'm not actually going to

  • show me doing that but all you do is adjust the blade so that it is square. And then adjust

  • the set screws that are under the saw. Alright time to check this rip fence. I am going to

  • use my rip fence alignment jig. I have found so many helpful uses for this thing in my

  • shop. If you haven't seen the video for that build yet. You can check the description.

  • I'll put a link to that video in there. That is not quite right but then again I doubt

  • this will ever be all that acuarate. Evan so i'll see about making a minor adjustment.

  • Lock the fence down. Loosen the two set screws on top. Unlock the fence, and press the front

  • of the fence against the front rail. Now, I'll move the alignment jig to the back of

  • the fence. Then tighten the two set screws. Now I debated whether or not I was even going

  • to show this procedure because at the end of it I found it didn't even make a difference.

  • It still doesn't lock down parallel. To be honest I'm not entirely surprised about that.

  • So it looks like I'll still be getting some use out of this rip fence alignment jig. The

  • unit also came with some outfeed support. About fifteen inches worth. Nice. I'll probably

  • opt to just put my outfeed support back on the workstation. I'll have to make a few adjustments

  • to it but, I think it'll work. So what I need to do is build a new top for the workstation.

  • I've decided to go flush with the top of the table saw which ironically, is how I had the

  • unit in the first place. If you watch the very first video that I uploaded to Youtube

  • which is the DIY table saw workstation Part one. You'll actually get to see how I originally

  • built the workstation before I did all of the upgrades. I do need to make a few modifications

  • to the workstation in order to get the new table saw in it. But, I think it'll work.

  • Visit me at simply easy diy dot com. Find me on Facebook and Pinterest. Until then.

Well she finally gave out on me. As I was finishing up the rabbit hutch in the last

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