Scheppach CS-55 Track Saw

[Lappa]

I bought the CS-55 some months ago when it was on special from Hare and Forbes. I also bought an additional 1400mm of track.
I have used it to trim the end of a door and cut up some half pieces of coated form ply and normal ply but have not used the two tracks joined, to break down full sheets of ply until today.
When cutting up the coated form ply there was some splintering of the plastic coating on the upper surface on the first cut, which I mentioned in a previous post. This was prevented in subsequent cuts by taping the upper surface.
SWMBO wanted a new built-in cupboard unit in the laundry to replace the existing very basic cupboard. The house is 100 years old and the laundry wall are single brick, spatter coated, so not a very even surface.
There have been reports of the track ends not being square when joined and only one joiner bar supplied so I attacked the 2400 x 1200 18mm ply with some trepidation.
I was pleasantly surprised.
The two tracks lined up beautifully and the saw glided over the join with no signs of jamming etc.
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There were also reports of the saw "rocking" because the two anti friction pads were too close together. As you can see from the above photo, this must have been fixed on later models because mine are wide apart and the saw was secure.
The finished cut surface was great with no signs of breakout using the original blade
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When I cut the board to width, I measured the width from a number of places on the wall but when cut, it was hitting on some spatter lumps etc so rather than recess sections of the board to fit the uneven profile and align with the floor frame, I decided to remove 4mm from the board and "no more gap" the few low spots.

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This next picture shows how straight the two joined tracks are as the long, droopy "sliver" is 1.7mm thick and very even.
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As as I was cutting outside, I didn't have extraction hooked up so I can't comment on that.

All in all I'm very happy with my purchase and even though I bought the key steel to make another joiner, it's no longer urgent.
Cheers, Peter.

[Lappa]

Just an update.
All my cutting yesterday was along the surface grain. Today I was cutting shorter lengths across the grain and there was some minor tear out. Original blade is 24t
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Changed the blade to a 40t I bought soon after I bought the saw and the result was much better.

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[Mountain Ash]

I have same saw and have improved it a little by using festool blade, festool splinter guard rubber and modified (with grinder) festool clamps. Cuts pretty clean on melamine but not perfect all the time

[DaveVman]

I have same saw and have improved it a little by using festool blade, festool splinter guard rubber and modified (with grinder) festool clamps. Cuts pretty clean on melamine but not perfect all the time

Did you replace all the rubber or just the cutting edge?
I have been thinking about getting the Festool rubber to replace the cutting edge which is never stuck properly on mine.

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