Craftsman 22124 Table Saw

MSCHAEF.COM · 2005-01-10T19:42:37+00:00

I know this has been done before, but I thought I'd post a fewcomments on the Craftsman 22124. I'm an amateur re-entering thehobby, and just took delivery of a saw last night. I don'thave it running yet, but here are my thoughts on the saw andgetting it into my basement. Hopefully, this will help somebodywho's now in the same position I was a few months ago.A few comments about the saw itself:- The trunions are mounted to the cabinet entirely seperately from the table.- The trunions look pretty consistent with other contractor-grade saws.- There are adjustments for backlash on both the blade elevation and tilt geartrains.- The control wheels are rather small. The tilt wheel rubs the plastic cap over the hole through which the shaft exits the cabinet. I don't know yet if this is by design, or if I need to adjust something. It works, but I'd like to improve the way it works if I can.- The fence looks nice, as you'd expect, but two of the cross pieces are missing paint in places. I don't think it's functional, so I don't really care, but I do think that on a $900 saw, the finish ought to be better.- I got the saw for 10% off (Craftsman club) of $900. Shipped, with tax, it was right at $900. There's lots of documentation online of folks getting better prices than that for various reasons. I think that's more a matter of patience, and your wilingness to do things like apply for Sears cards, if you don't already have one.).I think that in general if you look at the 22124 expecting a cabinetsaw, you'll come away disappointed. The trunions aren't as solid, thepower isn't there, there's only one drive belt, and the hand wheels arekind of wimpy. However, if you look at it as a foreign-made contractorsaw with a bunch of nice upgrade features, I think the saw can fit thatrole quite nicely and for a competitive price. I'll know more when I get it set up and running.Some thoughts on what it took me to get it down into my basement.- The saw itself is shipped in two...

Jan 10, 2005 23 Replies

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Chuck 21 years ago

That wasn't a great move! There are a set of mounting bolts for the spring tension blade and an adjustment for the entire assembly. You could have just backed out the bolts and adjusted it to fit!

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MSCHAEF.COM 21 years ago

Hmmm... I'm not sure about some of your terminology (what's a spring tension blade?), but I can elaborate a little:

The splitter has two mounting points. The back mounting point is a tab with a slot that is bolted to an aluminum bracket. The bracket slides onto a metal shaft that passes through the cabinet and is bolted into the trunion. This mounting point is highly adjustable.

The second mounting point, the front mounting point, is a tab that passes through the throat plate and into a aluminum bracket that is mounted to the trunion. In profile, it looks like this (you might want to view this in a monospaced font, like Courier or Tahoma):

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MSCHAEF.COM 21 years ago

Yes, that's one of two splitter mounting points. It's the other mounting point, the one I speak of above, that caused the problem.

-Mike

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