Dewalt D24000 hints / tips and accessories thread

[Ian]

Lol, it's this thread! Post 49

 

[Qwerty]

Doh! Cheers mate. Using tapatalk and its hard to navigate around it all at times!
Are those lasers easy to obtain (or something similar?)

 

[Gazzer]

Also Gary the tiler added an Irwin laser to one of his cutters, not sure how well it works but you could try asking him. It actually bolts to the spindle and rotates with the wheel.
I fixed a laser to my Dewalt but it wasn't very successful.

 

[Qwerty]

Well I have just received a laser, battery pack, CNC alloy mounting bracket and shrink tubing from an engineering firm to fit to my Dewalt.
I only have to get an L-shaped bracket fabricated to mount it all on the machine now. That should be completed in the next week or so.
I will post up pics to show you how it go's.

 

[DHTiling]

Look forward to seeing it road tested..

 

[Gazzer]

Well I have just received a laser, battery pack, CNC alloy mounting bracket and shrink tubing from an engineering firm to fit to my Dewalt.
I only have to get an L-shaped bracket fabricated to mount it all on the machine now. That should be completed in the next week or so.
I will post up pics to show you how it go's.
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Thats exactly the same as I had , I cant say I found it useful though and never use it now. If I had known you could have had mine.

 

[Peter]

Would be good if it works right but a 600/1000mm rule pressed against one side of the blade works fine for us penny pinchers. :lol:

Not sure on the accuracy of lasers as you've got to allow for the blade thickness. Best one I seen was on a Festool mitre saw that had a laser on each side of the blade so you could see where the blade was actually going to hit.

 

[Qwerty]

Not sure on the accuracy of lasers as you've got to allow for the blade thickness. Best one I seen was on a Festool mitre saw that had a laser on each side of the blade so you could see where the blade was actually going to hit.

I have focused the lens so that the beam of the laser is the same width as the blade. Shall see how it go's.

 

[Gazzer]

here is one I did earlier....about 2 years ago !

 

[Spud]

tried mitreing some hard porcelain with the standard dewalt blade on sunday and it was pretty poor to be honest the blade flexed away form the tile and gave an uneven diminishing edge

 

[gamma38]

Just reading this thread and You could get a light off dewalts dropsaws, Far more accurate than a laser as it casts a shadow over whatever blade you have installed. I have a dw717 with one and it knocks spots off anything i've ever had with a laser.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN3_e76yUbQ

[video=youtube;UN3_e76yUbQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN3_e76yUbQ[/video]

 

[Qwerty]

How would it fit up inside and would it have to be wired into the electrics if it all? Also, would it be waterproof? Does look good though

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

I though i would just add my update ,
i had the money back for the first 24000 i had in scotland , it was a duff machine i think,
So i bought another 24000 because so many peeps kept saying how good theres was & the value for money at the time could not be surpassed ,
And i have been very pleased with the what was then new machine , and it continues to do the job very well two years on rrr:

 

[Gazzer]

I though i would just add my update ,
i had the money back for the first 24000 i had in scotland , it was a duff machine i think,
So i bought another 24000 because so many peeps kept saying how good theres was & the value for money at the time could not be surpassed ,
And i have been very pleased with the what was then new machine , and it continues to do the job very well two years on rrr:

Do you think that for the same money it can be surpassed now ?

 

[CJ]

Well used mine today for the first time.

Dogs veg Wot a machine.

Not sure on spray, as it was pee-ing down, so I was gonna get a wetting anyway.


Had a play on a few off cuts to see how small a cut I could get.


First attempt at play, wet hands, too small an off cut to practice with.........flaming tile shot away from me and the machine, and ended up halfway down customers garden, narrowly missed their greenhouse.


That would have been fun explaining. :smilewinkgrin: