| | |  | HTC | Home » » » HTC A100-9 Brett-Guard Band Saw Guard | | | | | | | Description: | | The Brett-Guard Bandsaw Guard adds safety and visibility to your work with a convenient built -in work light to illuminate your cutting line and work area. The guard mounts at an angle to prevent interference with the saw guide components, and adjusts automatically as you adjust your depth of cut. The clear plexi-shield can also be adjusted independently. Fits 14" Delta Bandsaws. | | | Features: | |
• Easy to use
• Can be set to specific material height
• 110V, 60 watt light
• All mounting hardware included
• OSHA and ANSI compliant
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 12.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 10.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 6.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 4.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
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UselessSep 20, 2011
By Slim
I've purchased numerous HTC products, including an overarm table saw guard, with which I have been very pleased. So I anticipated that this band saw guard would be a welcome safety upgrade to my Delta model 28-203 14" band saw. Now, Delta has made numerous variants of their ubiquitous 14" band saw over the years, but most just involve different motors and bases. Mine is a typical Delta 14" band saw with the round guide bar (which has been standard for decades) so it's reasonable to assume an accessory designed to fit a Delta 14" band saw would fit mine. While HTC makes several different models of this guard to mount on a variety of band saws, both Amazon's description and the HTC Web site indicate that this guard (HTC model A-100-9) is the appropriate model to fit 14" Deltas. Like other HTC products, this one is built like a tank, but that's about the only good thing I can say about it. First problem: It doesn't fit the saw. The operator's manual includes a single exploded-view assembly drawing which was obviously drawn by an amateur draftsman who could not figure out how to mount the guard. In the diagram, for example, a few bolts are drawn as if they'd fit into adjacent pieces, but when the draftsman realized they couldn't work that way he just snaked some lines around to indicate that the bolts go elsewhere. Only one bit of the band saw itself is depicted in the assembly drawing, and it doesn't resemble any part of the real saw. More importantly, the guard's mounting bracket does resemble the drawing, which means it doesn't line up with anything on the saw. The only photograph in the manual illustrates a different model of the guard mounted on a different band saw (a Powermatic) using an entirely different mounting bracket, so it doesn't provide any guidance. I searched the Web for a picture of the guard mounted on a Delta band saw, but found no examples. Second problem: If you do jury-rig a way to mount the guard, it inevitably interferes when you change blades on your saw. There's no way to avoid removing and remounting the guard each time you change blades. Third problem: If you manage to mount the guard and accept the blade-changing inconvenience, you still have to figure out how to route the long power cord from the light on the guard to the saw's on/off switch mounted on the column. The cord wants to interfere with either the band saw's upper door or the tensioning adjustment, and the instructions do not cover this. Finally, the light bulb inside the guard seems to have been mounted as an afterthought. The power wires actually rest on the bulb itself. Maybe the bulb doesn't get too hot, or maybe the wires are heat resistant, but it looks like a shabby design at best and a fire hazard at worst. These days, an inexpensive battery-operated LED can be mounted to any bandsaw and provides a much better task lighting solution. So why do I rate this guard with two stars instead of only one? Simply because it is so sturdily constructed that it may serve as raw material for a guard you design yourself. I returned mine.
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