EZ Tracksaw System 108" with NEW SMARTBASE eurekazone

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Price: $257.40    

Product Feature

• Universal. Works with any right blade circular saw.
• Safety. "Dead Wood Concept" eliminates kick backs.
• Portability. Easy to move unlike your heavy table saw!
• Patented Design. Self Aligning, Two sided Track.
• Industrial Strength Design at Affordable Price.

Product Description

EZ TRACKSAW SYSTEM 108" with NEW SMART BASE. Package includes (2)54" Track, Anti-Chip Edges (4), New Smart Base, Smart Clamps (2), Off track Inserts (2), On Track Inserts (2), side connectors (2), The circular saw moves in a straight line, the cut is clean and right on the mark. That's what you notice the first time you use an EZ Track system. It makes you feel confident and safe. Using your own circular saw, with an EZ Smart Base and an EZ track you can make long precise rip cuts, cross cuts, and angle cuts. The wood is captive under the track and as a result there is no danger of kickback. The saw follows the track and puts you in complete control. The track has an anti-chip edge on both sides providing more versatility. The Smart Base also has an anti-chip insert to produce smooth edges on both sides of the cut. Smart clamps are included with this system and they turn your EZ Track system into a sawing center. One real test of a track is how well it performs on small and narrow boards. There are many cuts too wide for your miter saw, and they are too long to do by hand. The low profile, adjustable Smart Clamps secure the small boards under the track in any position you need to make your cut. The EZ Track system is available in lengths from 36" to 108." Longer systems available upon request. One great thing about the EZ Track System is that no matter which length unit you start with it will be compatible and interchangeable with the other size units and packages available from Eurekazone.

EZ Tracksaw System 108" with NEW SMARTBASE eurekazone Review

There are several significant flaws with this system that caused me to give up on it and consider the Makita, DeWalt or Festool track saws. The flaws are mostly due to using a construction type circular saw rather than a dedicated track saw:

1) Dust collection is non-existent with an unmodified circular saw. EurekaZone sells a dust port that will give mediocre dust collection, but it requires you to cut a rather large hole in your saw. Many circular saws are designed to blow the dust away from the cut line, so the dust port modification is fighting against that. It just doesn't work very well.
2) Bevel cutting. You can sort of do it, but you have to remove the antichip edge from the saw track, or have an one anti-chip edge for each bevel angle you want to cut. Real track saws are designed to give the same cut line for all bevel angles. Real track saws also have rigid bevel adjustment mechanisms with locks at both the front and rear of the saw. Most regular old circular saws have wimpy and flexible bevel adjustments.
3) Plunge cuts. Forget about it with a standard circular saw.

If those things don't matter to you, the EurekaZone track saw system may be a good fit. There's no question that some people have done amazing work with it. Search EurekaZone's forum for the kitchen cabinet project by member Mike G, for example. (On the other hand it is odd that there are so few projects posted on the forum by customers).

I should mention that the system I owned consisted of a 6 foot and 3 foot track, and that it was purchased through EurekaZone directly rather than Amazon.com. Other than that I had all the same parts included with the package under review (and a bunch more).

The track itself is the best part of the system. It is very strong. I think I recall seeing a picture of the owner of the company using the track as a ramp for his Fiat. The strength of the track matters if you buy into their whole system and build or buy what they call a "power bench" or PBB. If you aren't going to do that the track from Makita, DeWalt and Festool is plenty strong.

The track connectors aren't quite self-aligning as claimed, but they work very well. The track has three connector slots, one in the middle and one on each side (the middle one isn't used). This is a much better arrangement than the Makita or Festool tracks where the two connector slots are close to each other and positioned on the same side of the track.

The clamps are pretty clever and work well, but they have limited reach. To adjust them you turn a knob riding on a bolt, so it takes 16 (or is it 20?) turns to open/close the clamp by an inch. They are low profile, which can be handy at times. I think I like the Dewalt and Festool clamp designs much better, but they don't work with the Eurekazone track.

The anti-chip edges, in my experience, have a little too much play so you can't just set the track on your cut line and expect reliable results. On the Eurekazone forum you'll find that a few users have given up on the anti-chip edges and have created gauges to position the track before making a cut. The real track saws use an edge that is taped to the track and can't move. The True Trac system (which is very similar to Eurekazone's stuff) has a better anti-chip edge design, IMO.

Do you want to use multiple saw blades? Then either make sure they all have the same kerf or plan on having a different anti-chip edge for each blade.

Back to circular saw issues. Don't expect your current circular saw to work very well. On the EurekaZone forum you will find a lot of people asking for advice on what saw to buy. Most of the strongest proponents of this system on the forum use an obsolete Hilti saw, the WSC 267-e. Unfortunately, there is no comparable saw currently available in the US. The closest might be the Makita 5057KB which is over $300. Add that to the cost of the track kit and the total is right up there with the cost of the track saw systems from Makita and DeWalt.

EurekaZone recommends some saws for their system, and I bought the Makita 5008MGA based on that recommendation. It did not work well at all. Perhaps I got a lemon, and if so that is not EurekaZone's fault. However if you search their forum you'll find I'm not the only one who has had problems with this saw. They still recommend it, and they sell it modified for dust collection and with the plastic base installed.

Depth of cut is another issue. Between the track and the base you must mount on your saw, you lose about 7/8 inch of your saws depth of cut. This means most 7 inch circular saws won't be able to cut 2x lumber while riding on the track. Some saws will (Makita 5007 or 5008, for example), so if this is important to you pick your saw carefully.

If you do experiment with saws for the Eurekazone system, don't drill them for the Eurekazone saw base or dust port until you know you like the saw. It makes the saw impossible to return and kills the resell value. While experimenting you can mount the saw base with "mounting tape" designed for sticking emblems on cars, and you won't damage the saw or the Eurekazone base.

The next few paragraphs are about my experience with the Eurekazone company and its owner, so skip to the end of the review if you aren't interested that kind of stuff.

It took me quite a while to realize that the drawbacks of using a plain old circular saw as a track saw were just not worth it to me. While I was learning that lesson I continued to buy more stuff from EurekaZone. Over a period of about two years I placed 8 orders between EurekaZone's web site, eBay and Amazon.com. All but one of those had some sort of problem - either missing parts, or defective parts, or the item did not match the description given on the web site, Amazon.com or forum. Yes I was a slow learner and should have stopped buying after the first couple of times. I was a dope.

I don't buy into Eurekazone's unsupported safety claims. I will agree that a tracksaw is MUCH safer than a table saw for breaking down panels, but I won't agree that Eurekazone's wanna-be track saw is safer than the real track saws as the owner of Eurekazone claims. He also claims a perfect safety record for his company, but since he doesn't make power tools his claims are meaningless. If someone hurts themselves with a circular saw riding on a Eurekazone track they aren't going to blame the track! Furthermore there must be thousands or tens of thousands of users of the real track saws from Makita, Dewalt or Festool, but (I'm guessing) far, far fewer Eurekazone users. So it should be expected that there are more reports of accidents from the real track saw users.

The Eurekazone forum is a big part of Eurekazone's interface to their customers and potential customers. It can be useful and fun. There are a lot of good guys there who will help you if you do buy Eurekazone stuff. Just don't expect to find much objective information about track saws. If you go there tread lightly. Be careful about pointing out any flaws in the Eurekazone system, or saying anything good about Festool. Don't mention anything about quality control or customer support issues. I played nice there for a long time, but when I recently mentioned some of the problems I've had with orders over the last two years I took a beating. It ended in an ugly incident where the owner of the company accused me of lying about an item I bought from him through Amazon.com and immediately sold on eBay because it was too much hassle to return to Eurekazone. I was very annoyed with his actions, I showed the proof that he was wrong (tracking numbers, his own words from his forum), and then gave him good reason to ban me from the forum :) It was a very bizarre experience that I would rather not have had.

The product itself is a 3 star product in my opinion. It would be 4 stars if you really could use any old circular saw and get acceptable results. I'm taking off another star for all the problems I've had with orders - worse than any other company I've ever dealt with. If you've gotten this far and are still interested in a system similar to Eurekazone's, you should also look at the True Trac system sold by ShopSmith and ToolNut.com.

[Edited May 28, 2013 to add a few things and make the review more coherent (I think)].

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