- Lutz-mitre saw:
I needed an mitre saw at renovating my house, at this time I'm not going to buy the cheapest machine in the shop. When sawing wooden frames it is highly important that the machine has accurate an precise adjustments and measures. Otherwise you could see through any angle sawed with poor mitre saw. Especially when I intend to saw coated wood. At sawing of wooden beams for light-weight walls it isn't so important to have flawless quality.
First glimpse:
Package wasn't so heavy that I would have thought just by it's size. Assembling was quite painful since there were no good manuals in English language. The shank of this saw was locked for transportation. I just couldn't figure how to un-lock it and those manuals didn't help either. After this those German manuals were nothing but useless. Big minus from poor manuals.
- Next lets have a look of the technical info.
Tech Specs:
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Power:230V / 2000W=2,7hp
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RPM:4200r/min
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Hard alloy blade:250x16x3,2 mm, 36 teeth
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Saw range:0°- 90°:300 x 75 mm
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Saw range:45° - 90°:210 x 75 mm
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Saw range:0° - 45°:300 x 40 mm
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Saw range:+ / - 45° (double mitre): 210 x 40mm
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Weight: 19,5 kg=43lb
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Clamp,
Laser-beam, dust bag,
Table extensions
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- Features:
- I think that the most important feature is ability to saw 300mm (11,8") wide planks and such, so basicly all laminate floor-boards will go. It has also some advantages in basic woodworking too. Price was reasonable 299€. Quality with that price should bee fairly good also.
The stand of the mitre saw was not with
the package. This stand is my table saw's stand. Laser-beam is
more than adequate in shadow or in dark. But if the machine is in front
of window at sun shine, it is quite hard to see the laser-beam.
Not nearly all buttons and screws are explained in manual. And even if
they were I don't know how to read German, which is the only language
inside the manual.- Next some explaining of those knobs and screws.
- -First problem that I run into was the locking for
transportation. Not even a word was mentioned about it in the manual,
not even by a picture. This knob is the lowest red knob in the lower
picture. That knob is very stiff, you should just have the courage to
pull is hard, and at the same time turning it.
-The other red screw relates to depth limiting, this was an nice way of doing grooves for angle irons when I lowered the kitchen ceiling. I didn't have to worry about sawing it two. They could have mentioned the use of locking of the depth limiter. So the black cylinder will lock the limiting screw. When I didn't understand to move this to the other side those grooves started to increase depth since the locking didn't work from underneath.
-One clear and even a rough design fault revealed: you can't put the clamp on the other side
of
the saw at all. When you try this the body of the saw will touch the
clamp and cutting through is impossible. This is a major blunder. It's
major harm will show when you have so long piece of wood that it
would fell without clamp, and this is just what happens when you can't
attach the clamp on the other side.
- Dust extraction:
-One very irritating fault is unfinished dust extraction. There is an place for an dust bag or an vacuum just behind the blade guard. My
own Kärcher didn't fit to it nicely and I have to tune the vacuum
pipe inside the dust bag with rubber bands. Well that didn't really help
at all. Saw will 
throw
most of the dust straight behind itself and not up, like you might
thought. End result was that the dust was allover the house. Would that
be so hard to put some kind of an rectangular cone behind the machine to
guide the dust toward an other dust port?
Sawing quality if good but for
some reason it does lower quality to laminate flooring after the half
way. There are certain twitch and some laminate is very little teared
off. Of course I use blade designed to laminate and that tearing is so
small that you could newer notice it from a distance.
I think the mitre saw does it's jog just fine, dust extraction has many ways to improve before it is good.
I think the mitre saw does it's jog just fine, dust extraction has many ways to improve before it is good.
Altogether:
| Accuracy: | 8-/10 (65%) |  |
| Sawing quality: | 8+/10 (10%) | |
| Usability: | 6/10 (10%) | |
| Dust extraction: | 5/10 (15%) | |
| Final grade: | 7/10 (100%) |
-First glimpse
-Features
-Dust extraction
-Final words