A few years ago, I bought a Mil. slider and found it to be a very accurate tool but, a couple years later, I found that it wasn’t cutting accurately. The book said to send it in for adjustments so I took it to my local dealer and it was sent to the Mil. service center in Mil. They returned it and said it met all specs. I figured it was my technique. Lately, however, I again noticed it wasn’t cutting square and sent it in again. Again, it met all specs. A couple days ago, I took it to my dealer with an unsquare board and they agreed it wasn’t right. We messed around with the fences and found that when we adjusted the left one so it was almost right, the right fence couldn’t be adjusted to match the left. My guess is that something underneath has affected the detent mechanism. It went to Milwaukee and, if it comes back unfixed again, I guess I’ll scrap it for a Makita (Makita didn’t make one when I bought the Mil.
Any comments
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Hi,
I just had to return my Mil. 6494-6 the single compound non-slider MS and got the Makita 1030 slider.
The Milwaukee was bad out of the box, cut square but ragged. I figured bent arbor. Not a condemnation of Milwaukee, it was a floor model and probably got wacked.
Anyway I'm very pleased with the Makita. It's a great saw! I do lots of site work and it's not too heavy to take, but it would be nice to make a home for it and have it set up like a RAS with a long fence etc...
Expensive but I was always told:
"Buy the best and cry once"
HTH
N
Do not scrap this saw, I believe it is the best slidesaw made. You should be able to adjust the left fence on the money. The right fence is limited range to adjust. Do one of two things, ream the hole in the fence where the bolt goes thru or grind the threads above where in screws in. Either method will give you more play. I only had to ream the hole on the far right side a 1/16". I used a round file, cast aluminum files easy.
Mike
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