Makita 7104L/2 240V Chain Mortiser

Posted By: JoinerReplacement chains for chain morticers are eye-wateringly expensive.

It requires way to much force to be applied to the small locking lever to hold when applying the locking lever.I’ve watched videos of it in action but it’s very hard to tell if there’s any side movement there or not.

I am making a couple of timber frames shortly, and have about 120 mortises to cut in green oak beams of either 175 x 175 or 150 x 150 cross section. Hopefully it's not an issue in the first place but it might be worth checking out or maybe someone can shed some light on it? It easily and smoothly plunges a first mortise (about 11/16" x 2-1/16" with the 18mm chain) all the way through a 6x6. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.From the front of the base projects a foot lever, by which the belts are shifted back and forth, a very ingenious arragement of parallel motion levers being employed at the inner end of the foot lever. The sword saw has a riving knife, but that doesn't appear to be useful for tenons as no cut will exceed 175mm. Soon after i t s introduction t he a pp arently weak band sa w was developed so as to cut the hard -est w ood of any thickness with accuracy, economy and convenience undreamt of.