Do you use ts blade guard?

[Steve Ash]

I've had my Delta contractors table saw for over 10 years and the guard has never been used.

[Jim Hinze]

Frank,

Sorry, it was wood central, not wood net... my mistake.
Overarm Blade Guard

As far as advice:
Use 1/4" lexan, you don't need to go any thicker (I think the plans call for 1/2" which would be too heavy in my opinion, use a needle applicator for the acrylic adhesive, it's runny and messy... I didn't and have some smears.

The plans call for a 3" dust port on top, I ran a large section of 4" flex hose then branched it to 2 2.5" ports, front and back. It creats kinda a mini cyclone action inside the hood. I don't know if it's any better or not, but it seems to work well.

The plans also call for aluminum square tube for the overarm part... I used some scrap pine and plywood, works just as well.

Oh yea, and if you want it to look really good, don't let your 5 year old draw a shark face on it because she misses your old BT3100 shark guard

Jim, I saved the picture of the guard you made in my to-do list. Do you have any advice about making the guard?

Also, I just spent some time poking around Woodnet and could not find the plans. I would appreciate it if you could send a link to the plans to fpellow@sympatico.ca.

[Frank Pellow]

Frank,
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Oh yea, and if you want it to look really good, don't let your 5 year old draw a shark face on it because she misses your old BT3100 shark guard

Thanks Jim!

I would think that a shark face drawn by a five year old would be the BEST part. My granddaughter Isla turns 5 soon and, if I build this, I will ask her to decorate it.

[Jim Hinze]

Thanks Jim!

I would think that a shark face drawn by a five year old would be the BEST part. My granddaughter Isla turns 5 soon and, if I build this, I will ask here to decorate it.

For me, yes it is the best part , but I had not remembered at the time you had grandkids my daughter's age...

[John Keane]

Last night for my first contribution to this forum I wrote about my blade guard/splitter arrangement and that I was considering removing the blade guard.
Today after running several through dado cuts I switched to a combination blade and was running a short narrow test piece to verify the width. I was using a pusher and the board skewed I think because I got a real eye opening kickback and a sore finger as a reminder. I had had a senior moment and did not install the blade guard/splitter. I wont do that again.