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Overall Rating

Pretty good buy
Rated 3 stars.

Overall Rating

Ok saw.
I purchased this table saw two years ago. It arrived on time and in perfect condition. The manual is well written and is easy to follow. The assembly and set-up was easy and all the parts fit and lined up well.What I Liked: 1) The motor is very strong and never bogs down, great motor.2) It is the only saw in this price range that you can use a stacked dato blade on, (A wobbel type dado blade is to wide to fit)the instructions recomend a 6 inch dado, i used and 8 inch and it worked fine. But you can only safely stack the dado blades to 1/2 inch thick cut and still get all the threds on th arbor nut on the arbor.3) The fence is smooth, accurate, and works well.4) The Stand is very nice.5) The dust collection port is very nice and works very well, the saw blade is surrounded by a heavy sheet metal dust collection boot attached to a nice 45 degree connector to attach to your dust collection system.6) The blade that comes with it is ok (It lasted me three years and was only sharpened once. A Forrest blade is awsome, is used the Hitachi blade on all my rough carpentry.7) The aluminum table is flat and works well.8) It is fairly light weight, but it takes two people to move easitly.9) It will fit through a standard door with no dissassembly. Can’t do that with my new huge 400+ pound table saw!Dislikes:1) The sliding mitre guage fence is not accurate, lots of play in the mitre groves.2)The arbor has a littel more play in it then i would like, you can wiggle the balde slightly, on a Delta, Jet or Grizzley there is no wiggle at all.3) It is very dificult to get the blade to 90 degrees or 45 degrees accuratly using the saws adjustable stops. I used an accurate square and triangle every time I moved the blade to make sure it actually was square or at 45 degrees. A bgi annoyance!4) The blade insert / throat plate sits slightly below the table level. Very annoying when cutting small peices of wood where it could tilt slightly down onto the blade insert. There are no leveling screws or easy way to fix this. I epoxied a peice of oak to it and sanded it until it was flush with the table.5) It is pretty darn loud. Wear ear plugs!Recomendations: I learned my lesson. The Hitachi is ok but… Always buy good expensive tools. Buy a Table saw that costs $850 or more. I sold my Hitachi to a friend who loves it, he is a rough carpenter though. I bought a really nice table saw for Christmass. It is so very much better then the Hitachi. I never have to adjust or mess with the new saw, it runs silently and is ready to go with no fuss. I had know idea that a good table table saw was so much better to use and so much less fuss until i bought one. Good tools work much, much, much, much better then cheap ones. They are so much easier, accurate, and user freindly. Thinking about a cheap table saw… don’t do it. Always buy the expensive good one, you will be much happier.Try the Grizzley, Delta, Jet, or that other one I cant remember the name of!