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Einhell TC-TS 254 U review

A €171 table saw that cuts 10 mm deeper than the Bosch above at a quarter of the price — in a plastic housing, on a stand, with everything stated.

The bottom line The most honest specification in this lot at the lowest price in it. Buy the German listing if you can.

Hands-on testing pending. Nothing below is presented as our own measurement. Every figure is a manufacturer specification, read off the listing itself, and the judgements are ours — drawn from how the specification behaves in this class of machine and from what long-term owners consistently report. Where a figure is missing, we say so rather than fill it in.

What the specification says

2 200 W, 80 mm of cut height at 90° and 55 mm at 45°, a 254 mm blade, an improved parallel fence, a mitre gauge, a tilting blade, side extension tables, extraction ports on both the housing and the blade guard, and a stand that sets the table at 870 mm. Part number 4340510. The housing is plastic with integrated metal bracing, and there are holders on it for the fences, the push stick and the cable.

Kickback is what a table saw does when it goes wrong

The blade rises at the back of the throat plate. If the kerf closes on those rising teeth — because the offcut pinched, because the workpiece lifted off the fence, because the timber released its tension as it was cut — the saw picks the piece up and throws it back down the line of the cut, where the operator is standing.

The riving knife is the part that holds the kerf open behind the blade, and it is the guard that stays fitted. The rest is procedure: the rip fence and the mitre gauge are never used together on one cut, the last part of every rip goes through on a push stick rather than a hand, and the offcut is left alone until the blade has stopped.

What the price buys and what it costs

80 mm at €171 is more cut height than the cordless Bosch above manages at €669, and the extension tables and stand are in the box rather than on the options list. What you give up is mass. A cast-iron machine damps the vibration that a braced plastic one passes into the cut, and it stays put on the floor. The saw is not less safe for it, provided the riving knife stays fitted, but the cut surface off it will need more cleaning up.

Einhell publishes no rip capacity here either — the width to the right of the blade — which remains the one number nobody in this category prints.

The prices

€171 in Germany, €200 in Italy and Spain, €222 in Britain, €247 in France. Same reference, same barcode, and France paying nearly half as much again as Germany for it. Not sold on amazon.com.

Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-08-12. The live price is at the top of the page.

What we like, and what we don't

Strengths

  • Publishes both cut heights, at 90° and at 45°, which the Bosch does not
  • Side extension tables for wide workpieces, included
  • Extraction ports on the housing and on the blade guard
  • €171 in Germany for a 254 mm blade and a 2 200 W motor

Compromises

  • Plastic housing, braced with metal, on a saw with a 2 200 W motor
  • €247 in France against €171 in Germany
  • No rip capacity published, as on every table saw here
  • Not sold on amazon.com

Specifications

Motor2 200 W
Cut height at 90°80 mm
Cut height at 45°55 mm
Blade diameter254 mm
Working height870 mm on the supplied stand
Part number4340510
Amazon referenceB0873N2ZN5 (identical on 5 markets)
EAN4006825646320

Questions people actually ask

Is a plastic housing a problem?

It is the compromise that pays for the price. Einhell braces it internally with metal struts, and the practical consequence is not that it breaks but that it damps vibration less well than cast iron — which shows up as a slightly rougher cut surface and a saw that walks on a smooth floor if it is not held down.

Why does 80 mm matter?

Because it clears a 75 mm post and most glued-up stock in one pass, and because it drops to 55 mm at 45°. Every table saw loses height as it bevels; this listing is unusual in telling you by how much before you buy.