back with pix
Here are some pix and details:
Model 113.240421, build code 07 76 (maybe built in 1976?), direct drive motor, cast table (yeah!)
- blade is an older Freud 24 tooth with a wee bit of face runout, otherwise seems in good shape
Here's what I did to it today:
- cleaned blade with Simple Green
- wire brushed the rust off the table & waxed with Turtle wax
- turned it upside down, cleaned years of scunge out of the screws, lubed them with WD40 and wiped them dry - they work like melted butter now
- brushed & shop vac'd all the old dust and resins out
- checked blade alignment with miter slots and figured it was close enough for government work
- ditto on the 0° bevel setting
- cleaned up the guard and fence
- lubed everything that moves
- clamped a wood scrap at 3/4" to rip a strip to make a fence spacer that was missing, then mounted the fence
It cuts really nice. I ripped and mitered a couple of old pieces of treated lumber I need to frame up the herb garden. I plan to add locking casters to it next.
The fence is cr@p, like everybody said it would be. Someday I will upgrade the fence, also square up the blade alignment and bevel dead stop at zero as perfectly as I can, and maybe build a folding outfeed table that I can swing up into place right from the stand. No need for a dust collection system, I have a high-performance setup from Stihl that works just fine (see picture).
Will build Mrs. Koga42 a nice trellis for the climbing rose and the thornless blackberry vines as soon as I get to it.