I am fed up of giving my money away to others, when, I could possibly do a job myself, and the insert I need for my table-saw is case in point. Having thought about it, I realised that I had some metal from a portable workbench I had dismantled. I never took metalwork at school, but thought that maybe 57 was not too old to start! :)
Into the workshop, fitted a metal cutting blade to my grinder, and dug out the metal.
The first job was to cut off the sides, so that I was working with a flat plate.
That was easy enough, then I scored around the original insert to mark the plate for cutting
With a piece of wood to protect my bench, I got started:
I cut the sides, then one end, shaping it on my bench grinder until it was a snug fit, then remarked the other end.
However I realised at this stage that I was wasting my time, without the support it had of the sides, it was just too thin and flexing too much. It fit in the table-saw like a glove, but by the time I would have cut the slot for the blade, there would not have been enough support to hold the blade, therefore there was no point in continuing.
It was worth a try, but now it will wait until I go to the Fabricators!
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