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The saw isnt very square but your problem here seems to be the result of a lose blade. I can hear the motor whirring but the blade doesn't spin.

@randymay3925

3 жыл бұрын

The blade was tight. Checked it.

Thank for sharing us with your bad experiences with this Rigid. Wish you find a good saw now.

Make sure the nut holding the blade is tight. It might be causing the issue you are experiencing.

@kevinbouchard5362

2 жыл бұрын

I went in the comments to check if this was mentioned. That's exactly what I thought too. When a blade normally jams, its jarring but more importantly the saw completely stops making a spinning noise. When the saw is then turned off you can hear when the motor stops spinning but the blade continues to free spin. Highly recommend checking that the blade is tight on the arbor. With the saw unplugged, put a wrench on the arbor but and you shouldn't be able to turn the blade at all. If the blade can move at all, tighten it. If it can't be tightened do not use the saw with a loose blade. Best case it stops like in the video, bad case it goes crooked and causes kickback and worst the blade could come completely off. Best of luck and hope you get it fixed.

Ever wonder why at 3:08 into the *Spoiler alert** video your blade has stopped and the motor is still spinning? From 3:14 tp 3:44 the motor has stopped, yet the blade keeps spinning. Is there a loose nut somewhere?

I've had this saw for about two years and I was shocked to see the jamming... I've never really had that experience - never with 2x4 cuts... the blade almost looks wobbly in the video so maybe it wasn't secured tight enough? Anyway, I think it's a solid saw for the price point. As some others have said, the main negative is the fence and it not squaring properly when locking into place.

I have this exact saw. Mine worked great right out of the box. I think you got a defective one.

what did you end up going to? I'm looking at the 4518NS at the moment. I was wondering if you just had a dud? If I do go for it I'll be keeping the box until it's tested :) Thanks for the video.

@randymay3925

3 жыл бұрын

Metabo C10RJ. Got it on sale at Lowes during the holidays

@talderson1

3 жыл бұрын

@@randymay3925 Cool. You're happy with that? I'll look on your vids to see if you did a review. If so, please just ignore this.

Randy thanks for the video, respecting your opinion i agreed with the saw out of aligmnet but, i have this saw and as soom as i aligned everything it's being working like a champ. sorry you have this experience, but you shoud try another one. and blade was probably loose.

@randymay3925

3 жыл бұрын

Glad yours worked out. We did check the blade, it was tight. Comparing it side by side with my 4516, they went with a lot more cheap plastic parts and other design short-cuts that make me glad I had issues with it and took it back. My expectations were high after using the 4516. The Metabo is a better fit for me.

A couple of people have commented on that they think the blade was loose. Maybe. I did not check that as the brake stopped working as well so I assumed they were linked. Would a loose blade also cause the motor brake to stop working? The brake is internal to the motor not the blade. Any comments on that?

@ginoasci2876

3 жыл бұрын

others have commented that the blade was loose and that was my first thought because as you were ripping that board the blade stopped turning but the motor never slowed down by the noise. you and your son spend two hours trying to calibrate everything but could quite get thing right. if the blade is loose you guy could have spent two days, weeks, months, or years and you’d never get it square and parallel because the blade is always moving. another thing, the blades that come with saws are “always” junk. the run out is probably in the range of 0.010” if you’re lucky. i’m curious to know how bad that rip fence is because i’d like to buy a jobsite tabkesaw but without the stand. it’s 2020 and it seems like they all combined their jobsite saws with stands and jacked the price, so i’m looking into this one but if the rip fence sucks, i don’t want it, unless it can be retrofitted with a better one. back to the blade.....it really looked loose. might you buy another to try at home then return it just out of curiosity? lol

@randymay3925

3 жыл бұрын

@@ginoasci2876 thanks. Yes the fence to the miter slots, the riving knife, etc it was all off. The blade was off too but was not difficult to align to the slots. The fence was hard to keep true. I adjusted everything to the slots not the blade but yes, if had tried to adjust everything to line up with a lose blade, it would have very frustrating.

@randymay3925

3 жыл бұрын

@@ginoasci2876 I ended buying a Metabo. It is hard to buy the job site saws without a stand anymore. I left the stand in the box and stored it just in case but I built my own saw stand that works much better in my shop

@ginoasci2876

3 жыл бұрын

@@randymay3925 : I bought the Ridgid R4514 but the table wasn't flat, they sent another top but still not flat and I had to swap it out. These manufacturers are pissing us off and we should let them know, by not buying any jobsite saws. Boycotting seems to be our only weapon to control them, but then you have contractors the need to get work done. We have to Male do with doo doo I suppose. Wear your glasses, watch your fingers, and have fun. Cheers!

I have the same saw and I’m not happy with it either. Dust collection is awful, bevel is a pain to adjust (and I can never get it to true 90), and the rip fence often ends up angled, have to check it every cut. Not happy with this saw.

I know you've replaced this saw already, but something else that could have been happening since you said you checked the arbor nut was the rear of the fence being off a hair and pinching your 2x4 enough to activate the brake? Just a thought.

@randymay3925

3 жыл бұрын

could be. We spent over an hour tryig to square everything up. Pretty much every angle was off out of the box. It could have come out of square again. We did not check that again after we adjusted it all.

I would check the nuts on the arbour and check that the rear end of fence is not pinching

Hey Randy, thanks for the video. I have the same table saw. I have not had similar experiences as far as the motor stopping but the fence on my saw will not lock in square no matter what I do.

@leafsfan7444

3 жыл бұрын

Try pushing on the locking mechanism before latching the fence. Usually squares it

@jeffreyspradlin5686

Жыл бұрын

Same here. Have you seen the 3d printed catches for other models of Ridgid? Can't find them for mine

Operator error!! If not all you commented on was making square; it wont be square when the blade is loose.. worse table saw in your opinion sorry but..

You know, Home Depot has a generous return policy.

@randymay3925

2 жыл бұрын

Yes for sure. It went back for sure. I took the time to do the video and review because before I purchased I could not find anybody who had done a review on that specific model and the differences from the other models and I wanted others to have more information than I had before they purchased the saw. I for sure returned it!

Your blade isn't tight at all. The motor is still spinning and that tells me you don't have the lock bolt cinched down. If the motor didn't have enough power, you'd hear it lock up. I didn't hear it lock up. I'd be curious to know, since you did this review about 2 months ago, if you fixed your issue. Was it a loose lock bolt?

I mean one is 15 amps the other is 10 you can tell right away but you said you did months of research I found this out just tonight but two years later now I think the one youd want is the R4540

I have exact model saw and none of the issues you mention, and you people you see 10th of videos out there with awesome Ridgid saws than this one 2 min video makes you not buying it. this makes any sense to you???

@randymay3925

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for commenting and watching my video. I can understand that. I have another Ridgid saw that I can do a very positive video on but it is a different model. And yes, even if you take the mechanical issues out, every component of this saw is made way cheaper than the other Ridgid saw we own and another we have used. I actually bought this saw based a very positive experience with Ridgid and considered them to the go to solution. That is no longer true with the cheap re-design that they have gone to. I looked for weeks to find video and review of this same saw model and could not find any so I bought based on and expecting a similar saw as the other Ridgid saws I was familiar with. This is not the same saw. It is cheaply made and arrived out of square in every direction. Maybe this one was dropped in shipping and every other one is perfect. Even if that is true, it does not address the cheap flexible plastic pieces that have replaced solid pieces on earlier models.

Thanks for the connects. Some comments said the blade is loose. Could be. The motor was slowing down as well but the blade brake stopped working as well. But, in the off chance that the blade was loose, then that is just another thing left loose and out of adjustment from the factory. I would still be a bad saw as that does not address the other out of wack and cheapened things about this saw compared to the reviews of the estimate models I looked at. It was a bad saw no matter what. I wanted to like this saw but do not recommend it at all.

@mgcaekdb

3 жыл бұрын

Did you exchange it for another one or what did you do? I'm debating buying this saw and am wondering if you just got a lemon. Thanks!

@randymay3925

3 жыл бұрын

@@mgcaekdb I got a different saw. I found a Metabo on sale during Christmas and so far am loving it. I like the Ridgid saws but the orders ones. I have a 4516 at the house also and that is a great saw. The 4518 went cheap plastic parts and harder to adjust. I would not have gotten another one of those based cheapened materials anyway.

I also wanted the R45171 but by the time that I decided to buy it wasn't available. I saw the new one with the cheap mitter gage and I knew that they started to cut down cost and clearly quality. I refused to pay the same for a lower quality product. Hopefully you were able to return it.

@RexClair

3 жыл бұрын

I’m in the same boat, I wanted the R45171, saw a ton of reviews on it and was ready to buy. Then I noticed that everywhere I type in that model number I get this model instead. I really want to like it because it accepts a dado stack in my price range, but looks like I’ll be going for a Dewalt instead.

Dear friend, you have not yet seen the worst of all, which is undoubtedly the Kobalt KT 10152. I tried 3 different ones in different stores and each returned them, they are all garbage, each had two or three serious design problems and is built with cheap materials. for $ 350 it was the worst waste of time, now I go for a $500 up Table saw

Yep, my money is on a loose arbor nut. When the blade stops moving the motor keeps going and you can hear that shaft rubbing on the blade's arbor hole. Once you shut the saw off you can hear the brake engage, but then the blade keeps spinning and making noise as it rotates around the shaft. Loose arbor nut.

It’s pretty obvious it’s a loose blade. But I’ve be looking for a good portable table saw and just about every video I seen on KZread has me not wanting to buy one 😂

Change the blade, if you have any other blade same size even if old change it to see if this could solve the problem

The arbor nut is not tight enough

@randymay3925

3 жыл бұрын

A few people have said that. I talked to my son who helped me set it up. I did not remember if we checked the blade but he said for sure that we did because he was the one who checked and tightened it. Also, assuming that that was the issue anyway, there were several issues that had nothing to do with the blade. I have another Ridgid saw that I love and bought this one because of my fantastic experience with the R4516. This is not the same quality of saw in any way. The miter gauge is cheap plastic vs solid metal one on the R4516. The R4516 was accurate out of the box, the R4518 was out of adjustment in every area and was really difficult to set to square. I do not know how long it would hold once adjusted because I returned it.

@scraplifetrashtocash4551

3 жыл бұрын

@@randymay3925 You're correct. This Table saw is not good and actually dangerous to even use it. Other Job site saws out in the market that r way better and safer to use. On a Table saw it has to be good. One thing wrong and a bad accident will happen. And lose some fingers too.

Tighten your blade up its not the saws fault

@randymay3925

3 жыл бұрын

The blade was right but good suggestion

mine is awesome, it is a poor carpenter...