My table saw is an inexpensive Mastercraft Sliding Table Saw. Inexpensive is the polite way of describing it. It's cheap ... cheaply made, and no part has any accuracy. My "owner" experience so far is quite negative. My bad, I already knew Mastercraft tools were absolute junk. If you are ever in a position of needing to buy a tool, consider ANY other brand and pass on anything with the Mastercraft brand name.
I bought it used. When I brought it home, I noticed that I could not stand it up when the stand was folded up. The guy I bought it from had set up the stand and inverted the direction of the saw. I took the bolt & nuts off, turned the saw 180 degrees, and put the bolts and nuts back in. That solved the issue. One issue I was aware of: the saw blade wobbled when I tested it. Since it was a new Dewalt saw blade, I assumed that the blade change from the original one included when the saw was originally purchased was not done correctly. It's common ... while changing the blade, it is easy to get saw dust behind the blade and/or forget to clean the arbor properly.
When I checked the arbor, it was clear that it was not cleaned properly. But that didn't solve the problem of the wobble completely. So I went through the process of realigning the sub-frame of the table saw. That also did not solve the problem.
It turned out that this "new" Dewalt blade was bent. That is consistent with some markings on the blade throat. I suspect that something was dropped on the table saw when the saw was running. The blade caught whatever was dropped and caused it to go between the saw blade and the throat opening causing the markings.
Fortunately, I had purchased a Bosch saw blade when it was on sale. I swapped that out and that solved the blade wobble problem.
I have now used the saw quite a bit. I must point out that I did not expect the blade guide to be accurate or parallel to the blade. I am well aware of the issues with portable table saw guides and accuracy and take precautions to make sure my cut is straight. I have two frustrations with the saw. The first, and most frustrating, is the stand. I like the concept of the stand – how Mastercraft implemented that is cheap. The legs are not easy to level. It does have level attachments, but they are as close to useless as can be. The swing out legs have large knobs to secure ... but they don't work that well. And the constant manual setup of the legs gets to be tedious. The second frustration is the sliding mechanism of the table saw table to the left of the blade. That's the main feature that attracted me to this table saw. The problem is that it "wobbles" too ... not really the right terminology. There is play in the sliding mechanism. The sliding platform does not stay parallel to the blade ... it has play in it. The platform can move left to right at any spot along its movement.
I'll solve both frustrations. I am in process of replacing the stand. I have ended up with a used Ridgid table saw that doesn't work. I removed it from the stand. After taking the stand apart, I sanded all the parts and repainted it the same original color, then reassembled.
The Ridgid brand table saw is quite a bit bigger than the Mastercraft. To mate the Mastercraft table saw to the Ridgid stand, I put a 3/4" plywood platform and plan to bolt the table saw to the plywood to secure it. It's taking me a bit longer than expected to do this. That's because Mastercraft cheaped-out on building this saw. There is no dust port. There is a hole in the top of the Mastercraft stand (which is the bottom of the Mastercraft table saw). They supply a cloth bag to collect saw dust. The subframe of the table saw does have engineered areas to put a dust port, but it is all left open (no parts) to gravity feed into the open hole and cloth bag.
Since the 3/4" plywood now will be the platform for the table saw, I have to design a dust port somehow. I don't want to cut into the table saw housing. It's cheap enough now ... having a hole in there for a dust port may compromise it. I will build a dust port into the stand somehow, but I need to plan it carefully so it does not impact the gravity stand.
The second fix is to replace the sliding mechanism entirely. There is absolutely no way to fix sloppy engineering by Mastercraft. I'll remove the rails and the sliding top and replace it with an engineered wood slider to fit precisely in the table top space.
More on that when I get it done.