My Unisaw almost never moves from it's position in the shop, but the saw is on an HTC wheeled base frame, so I can move it when necessary. Many other blade guards either have the anti kick-back pawls already included in their design, or their mounting interferes with the pop-up splitter installation and use. It's one of the very few blade guards that work well when in combination with the Delta Pop-up Splitter. They not only limit kick-back, but their added width above the blade kerf prevents the board from lifting, should it ever begin binding at the rear of the blade.įor a blade guard, I use a ceiling mounted Brett Guard, when I feel that a blade guard is needed for what I'm doing, but I don't use it very often. the anti kick-back pawls on my pop-up splitter weren't sharp enough when first installed, but this was an easy fix at the grinder. It's necessary to have a slot cut in the table insert behind the blade for the splitter, but it's easy to add this, even in shop made zero clearance inserts. To use it, I remove the table insert and lift the splitter into position where it snaps into place. Once adjusted for the blade position during installation, my pop-up splitter has held it's adjustment well. A ball detent in the design holds the splitter in in the up or down position. The Unisaws have a 2 bolt mount under the table and behind the blade that these easily attach to. The Amazon photo shows it rotated 90 deg to the right from the way it would be positioned when installed in the saw. This Delta splitter is now available again on Amazon for purchase new, but at a crazy high price for what it is. It took me a couple of years to find one of these splitters, since it was a long since discontinued accessory at the time, but one finally showed up on my local club's swap board, and I bought it. Cross cuts on solid wood, and cuts in any direction on plywood, and composites don't have this problem. I usually only use it when ripping solid wood, because that is the only time I've ever had the kerf close up during a cut. I have a Delta Pop-Up Splitter on my mid 80's Unisaw.