Makita MLT100 | 5 Essential Upgrades | Improvements | Review | Modifications 

wooow! you have a lot of brilliant ideas im done wathing your first video and wathin here your second video its a very nice and great tips on how to solve the problem of that table saw your a genius sir congratulations keep safe always sir and keep up the good work than you so much for sharing and God Bless

Makita needs to consult this man on their next tablesaw. How could a leading company in tools have so many shortcomings in one tablesaw? Was this their first attempt at building tablesaws? That throat plate, Jesus!

I was considering buying this table saw. Your video has changed my mind.

Thank you. Your information saved me from making the mistake of purchasing this machine.

That throat plate looks like a lawsuit to me ! Can’t believe Makita could get away with that ! Crazy !

Great video...I have all these issues in my MLT100 that I have been using for 5 years....Thanks for sharing all the ideas I can use to solve them...

I am new learner and i bought this MLT 100 thanks for great ideas for upgrade.

I seriously was considering buying this saw and you put me off. To spend $670 and get a saw with so many flaws just does not make sense to me. If I have to sink several hours of extra time and more money to modify, build plates and guards the no. Makita, for the first time I’m giving you a miss and start researching other tables. Thank you for a good video. A big thumbs up from me.

Very good video. Great suggestions shown very carefully and professionally .Thank you very much.

Good to know whose issues before buy one. thanks.

I bought mine a while ago but it is still in the box because I don't have the space ready yet. But I realize one great thing already! There are so many videos for all its flaws that I already know they all can be fixed, lol. Yours is one of them, so I am prepared. Thanks!

Excellent work! Thanks for sharing.

Very good solutions for all those little problems that can create frustration during work. Thank very much from Italy,

Great video, these manufacturers need to get their shit together

Fair play to you and the mods but if anything, this vid has put me off this table. Appreciate your time. Thank you.

Many Thx for this video

Excellent video, Some really good upgrades too. It's a pity Makita don't have the same common sense as you! 👏👏👏

I have had my machine for about 8 years now with medium use. Not a bad machine apart from the irritating issues you have encountered.My Blade insert broke after about a month. I made an alluminium one the same as the original and also a zero clearance one. The t slots is an irritation as well as the sliding table on the left with so much slop that it is useless. Thanks for the idea of the wooden mitre slides. Will do the upgrade as well as make a sled. Nice informative video!

Excellent teaching skills amigo, your British accent is superb UK folks don't use these kinda power tools much! may be Canadian. Any way I have this saw since 3 years still going on well. I have already upgraded the things you have mentioned. Take care buddy.

i was very hesitant before buying this saw. thank you for the videos im now going to implement all your modifications to my new Makita. keep up the good work bhai!

Thankyou, I purchased one of these saws and was instantly very disappointed with the fence and mitre system as you have highlighted in your great videos and resolved. (Certainly pays to look at reviews before making a spur of the moment purchase.) In principle this saw table has a lot of positives and I still think for the price and the fact it can be made to cut accurately with a few relatively simple improvements it is still certainly worth considering. Makita really dropped the ball on the design to ensure accuracy on this unit. I thought your ideas were great and will certainly be doing similar upgrades. Anyone owning one of these machines should at least replace the insert plate as greatly improves safety of using the machine.

It is what i need to know before buying a new Makita MLT100 , thank you !!

Great video Tarlochan...

One of the best videos I've seen for MLT100. Your fence solution is excellent - I'll be using this method in the future. Just be wary of handling the fence - I accidentally knocked my fence off the table saw surface, and when it fell to the concrete floor the black metal part of the fence locking mechanism cracked in two. The metal is brittle.

Wow, dude, So many tips! Now I need to check if any of this aspect was fixed in my MLT100N...

Genius ideas Tarlochan. I wish I had seen this a few years ago when I had this saw. Thanks so much for sharing your ideas, solutions and skill.

Well done, great video.

Thanks for sharing your ingenuity for solving these problems. Great work 👍🏾

excellent video! I like how the motor runs and the blade stop so I was researching it as a replacement for my old saw, I think I'll keep looking! thanks again for the fine video!

I was going to buy one of the but thanks to you for indicating issues with this particular table saw

Great video, very helpful. Thank you.

Hi Tarlochan! Thank you so much for making this video which is very helpful! This machine from Makita is a very deficient product which doesn't fit to the quality of other Makita products. I had a lot of anger with it. Today I integrated the saw into my big working table and took away many things like both table extensions on the right and the back side, the aluminium fence under the machine, the acrylic fence with steel sheet inside the machine. The play of the rail in the groove I rectified with hammering the iron rail and forging it wider. I still use the cheap flexible fence and will replace it soon with something self-made. So I am interested to your plans. I disassembled the whole machine and greased all turning or sliding parts which helped a lot and made the hight adjusting mechanism easy working. The biggest problem for me is the fact that the aluminum table is very inaccurate and shows a difference in the horizontal measurement of 1.2mm from one to the other side. I can show you my measurements on a photo if you like to know, but I don't know how to add a foto. Another problem for me is the very hard start of the motor which beats very hard to the case. The switch of this machine is a simple on/off-switch and not a softstart-switch which I believed to get. Now I face the problem that the saw blade isn't aligned. So I have to take out the machine from my workbench one more time. You gave me a real punch to solve the next problem with this machine. May I have your email address in order to have some exchange with you? Thank you so much to India! I live in Chiang Mai, Thailand and - by the way - my Thai woman family name is Singhka! See you!

Excellent information!

Thanks for sharing great ideas , I am going to buy same machine this week

Hi Sir! Thank you for your help. I just purchased this saw and will be able to avoid the thread problem (lift) you mentioned. Your other improvements are great, too. Once more, thank you. Subscribed 🙂

Sirji, u beat japnese Makita with that new thread design!! i luv makita but after seeing reviews of mlt100, realized the poor quality of makita.. never expected such low quality product from makita .. i have just started wood working and bumped into ur channel today.. btw ur shop looks awesome.. plz make a shop tour if not done already.. 🙏🙏🙏

Another great video addressing problem's of MTL100. After finding solution to the fence problem, miter was my next worry. You seem to have address it quite simply again. Could you explain the metal part of the miter slide on the wood part(was it fabricated or off shelf part ) The Blade lifting mechanism came such a huge shocking!! which is a major blunder from makita, until now thought only the fence was an issue. Thank you for covering each parts 🙏🏽

thankyou for such an informative video. I am going to buy this saw. (Note; the word for the screw you replaced is Bolt Not Bold. even though it's technically a lead (Pronounced 'leed' not 'led') screw. a bolt is a thing that clamps or fastens things together. I didn't know this until I tried to explain it.) 🙃

Thank you for sharing the improvements that can be made to other shortcomings of the MLT100 besides the fence. It never did occur to me about the miter slot size differences until you mentioned it. However the biggest surprise (or disappointment) was about the failure of the blade lifting mechanism. This will become a major issue after prolonged usage of the T/S. It's a pity that Makita is not willing to address this problem specifically by providing parts that can be renewed.

Merci Tarlochan pour cette vidéo...je m’empresse de réaliser les modifications fort judicieuses sur ma machine toute neuve.

Chan Hello nice video, so do you recommend this saw ? Should I get one?

Very good suggestions, thank you for making the effort to share your improvements.

Great vid mate thanks for sharing

Really good upgrades. Thank you.

Very very good, congratulations and tank you From Curitiba / Brazil

Another excellent video. Look forward to watching each upgrade in detail. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you. Very good video and I am amazed at the poor build quality of some of the parts. I guess this is to keep the overall cost down, but I must say Makita needs to be careful here, as this is not the first time I have seen them do this. Very impressed with your mods!

Great idea. I need to do these upgrades on my 2 year old Makita table saw. Thanks for sharing such brilliant tutorial.

Thanks T. i have this saw and the woes of original build, I will pretty much do all the upgrades (or fixes) and was wondering what profile/size aluminium extrusions (v-slot you used?

Thanks for the video champ. Love ya work. I regret buying my table saw now, but at least I have your video to improve and fix it. Do you know how to put dado blades on this model??

Wonderful video. Thanks!

Thanks for your excellent video. I just purchased this saw and am a little disappointed with the quality. I have found some problems like you and will need to fix it. I'm curious how you did the sideways blade adjustment (slotting the bracket underneath). My blade is off by 2mm. Do you have a video about that ?

Parabéns pelo excelente trabalho para otimizar essa serra makita. Você deveria enviar estas modificações para a Makita , para que eles façam estas modificações na fábrica, obrigado por compartilhar.

Thanks very much for your excellent video (this one and the description of the fence modification). I want to do the fix for the mitre gauge, but am wondering how you fixed the metal spacer to the hardwood slide. The screws that come with the device are machine screws, how do you secure them in the timber?

Thanks for sharing your idea's, the fence I'm defentaly checking out. The problem I have with the saw is that the blad drops in height during cutting. Probably due to fibrations the blade is slowly dropping. I'm working on multple cuts and the height defenatly needs to be the same. Do you know the problem? and how can I solve it?

At the end of the video you show shortly the "extanded slots for increased horizontal blade adjustments". Can you please explane why and how you do this?

Thank you for the information and the great ideas for solution, my machine is about to reach my adress i just bouth it, can you tell the sizes of the thread rod? Not exactly, just approximately, so i can get the material to make one too.

Thanks for your effort! Everything is clear and very helpful. 👍

Wow, as I knew about pepole of India : intelligence and accurancy. Thanks alot for sharing your Smart brain. Gratefully, I demain. Go on

Hola Ante todo un saludo Estoy encantado de haberte encontrado en You Tube pues de verdad que tus tutoriales ayudan a mucha gente en especial a los que nos gusta el mundo del bricolage. Tengo una sierra de mesa de la que estoy bastante contento ya que me costo muy poco dinero y tiene bastantes prestaciones .Pero tiene los mismos problemas que tu maquina Makita MLT-100 es inestable en la guia la elevacion del disco se atasca y a veces no llega al final del rrecorrido y algunas cosas mas asi pues este tutorial que nos presentas me servira de gran ayuda MUCHAS GRACIAS SAUDOS TONI MARTIN

I really Like your tutorial for upgrading MLT100 especially the Fence that's also my problem and now i have an idea to change that's kind of fence also... thanks for your Video... im waiting to other video you gonna release... Good Luck and More Power... from Ph...

I thought Makita is supposed to be more..., but your video is great!

I have similar problems with my table saw. I wish to try these. Thanks for the video! Keep making great contents like this. Liked and subscribed.

Thanks for advices, lot of points for improvement. Do you maybe still have drawings for slider bars and for that new spacer that you had to make?

Beautiful

great upgrades....you should make and sell the new treaded bolt and lift plate.....

Great video. Is the saw at least reasonably accurate without the upgrades and worth purchasing? I would be using it minimally

Great video, you’ve convinced me not to purchase this saw. I am looking at the Dewalt instead.

Very informative review. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed!

Good job my friend!!

Do you have the measurement of the fence in cm? Awesome.❤

Thank you Mr. Singh, for this amazing video. Is the makita mlt100 good to use? Do you recommend buying it?

Great video. Thank you so much

Good idea of replacement bolt!👍

Dear Sir I am very much impressed by your way of information .Excellent Excellent Excellent Where are you from? I am from Ludhiana .

This is a great video. Very helpful! Thanks!

Good video, verry helpful. Tanks

Awesome job mate, i have one question, does the fence lock down properly is there a little movement that i'll have to account for every time i set the fence to a new width?

Thank you I hope you do more videos

Thank you well done Video

I found a stronger insert, not plastic, from Parts UK. Its not zero insert but it no longer bends under pressure. Now ill try adding a zero insert.

Engineering mind at work :) - great video thanks for making it. Now that you have made all the upgrades and corrections etc - would you still recommend this model? I'm looking to buy my first table saw. thank you

Tarlochan how do i adjust my saw blade so the front and the back are at 90 degrees to the table please. They are currently 1/4 out compared to the channels from the dame saw tooth front to back. Thank ypu.

Boa Noite também comprei esta serra ,embora antes da compra ja sabia destas deficiências ,comprei mesmo assim , vou colocar em pratica estas dicas principalmente a guia ficou muito boa , moro em são paulo Brasil .

Bro.. thanks 🙏

What an excellent clear and explicit upload, Tarlochan ji. Specially for a seventy four year young KG IV student of the carpentry hobby work. Having converted a circular saw into table saw, I could not make a forty five degree straight cut on 19mm thick ply. The reason for this which I found was the absence of the Raving Knife. So since last many months was considering Dewalt 745, not sure why was impressed by this name. But today having come across your this educational and informative upload, I am seriously considering for MLT100. Not hesitant for tweaking and Tuning new machines.... Have subscribed to your channel. This is sharing knowledge without any reservation. Will be present in all of your uploads. All the best. May God Bless You. Regards rr

Cool video, thanks. Clear and lots of ideas. Have been thinking about purchasing the MLT100 for a while now, but every review reports a similar range of issues and limitations... Now you’ve had it (and modified it), would you recommend it? Thanks again from London :) Sam

Do you perhaps have any ideas on how to lock the up&down movement of the blade. I sometimes find that the blade height drops a little bit while sawing. I have had my Makita MLT100 for a few years now and sometime encounter this problem.

Very helpful. Thank you!

Great modifications!

Good job, although not everyone has lathes and cnc machines. But great explanation and insight .

Great job 👏 is there any chance you could make me one of those bolts and the steal plate?! If yes let me know how much would you charge for it thanks 🙏 great job hope Makita is listening 👂 and learning to.

This machine in the right man

Hi. I'm from Curitiba, Brazil. Congratulations and thanks for your help. Keep going on.

Can you tell me the difference between the Makita MLT 100NX and the Makita MLT 100NX1 please.

Hey the left sliding is useless because it has caps when pushing it I hope you make video to fix it thank you 😃

Subbed. Just got this saw. Excited to use her.

Sir, where can we order Makita mlt100 spare parts?? Please help me to buy online shopping

the engineers at Makita should watch this. i can only think they made these design errors intentionally.

Super. Greetings from Poland.