Need a new table saw

[hillwigtool]

After losing half my thumb and cutting of two finger I got rid of my delta contractors saw and bought a sweet Sawstop table saw. No matter how careful you are accidents happen. At least now it can only be a minor cut. A board kicked back and it was over before I knew it happened. Just my opinion but fingers are priceless.

 

[CalG]

It would be nice but I just don't think I need that much saw. Plus, I just added another 240v outlet for my welder and don't have the space in the box.

When is the last time you needed both the welder AND the saw table? Not often I would bet. I made up a pigtail out of the welder wall plug to take the 220V planer .

 

[mapper]

I bought Walker Turner from the good old days when there were actually tools made in USA. Had to replace the motor, but it runs ever since like a pro and is very stable and precise.

The best part - even with the motor it was only 400 dollars.

A friend of mine acquired a WT radial arm saw a few years back, unfortunately one of the carriage bearings had been frozen for a long time and the surface on the arm was very worn down, the cost of having it machined down and adding a steel insert was more than he wanted to pay. When he sold it I helped load it on the buyers truck, it was so heavy we had to use an engine hoist to load it. It was one solid built piece of machinery, it was too bad it had been so abused when a two dollar bearing would have fixed it when the original froze up.

 

[joefromga]

When is the last tie you needed both the welder AND the saw table? Not often I would bet. I made up a pigtail out of the welder wall plug to take the 220V planer .

The 1 hp saw is fine. Now I need to get the fence squared up. I think it has a bow in it somewhere.

The welder is in the garage near the door for ventilation. The saw is in the wood shop probably 60ft away. It's not a house but an industrial building. Just not practical to run any more electrical runs at the time.

 

[spitter]

Glad your keeping the saw most of the stuff under 3000 bucks you can buy today is plain junk.Is that a nick in the fence where the blade kissed it ? To help with the bow I would just bolt or clamp on a sacraficial fence made of some nice straight hardwood .Wood will get tighter downto table top for cutting thin laminates and help when running dado's.:drink:

 

[Travelover]

Just as a FYI for anyone else in a similar situation, these old Craftsman table saws sell for peanuts on Craigslist.

 

[arkydog]

the OLDER craftsman table saws were really pretty good. i have two, one with the original fence that i added a sacrificial board to the fence and one with a beismeyer fence. both cut the same accuracy. both have the cast iron table extensions.............

 

[newbury]

After losing half my thumb and cutting of two finger I got rid of my delta contractors saw and bought a sweet Sawstop table saw. No matter how careful you are accidents happen. At least now it can only be a minor cut. A board kicked back and it was over before I knew it happened. Just my opinion but fingers are priceless.

My Grandfather, who was a Master Carpenter trimmed part of his thumb in about 1956 on the Delta tablesaw which is now in my basement. The story goes I was playing around near him, distracted him, and whoops.

He hauled that from New York to Vermont and down to Florida, back to Vermont where when he passed in about 1977 I inherited it and eventually hauled it down to Virginia to two houses. By then it had been a key component of his work building houses and cabinets. Somewhere in it's travels the cast iron frame broke. I called Delta and it wasn't very expensive to get a new one. In the last 40 years I've probably only used it for about 20 hours a year and replaced 1 belt.

Just as a FYI for anyone else in a similar situation, these old Craftsman table saws sell for peanuts on Craigslist.

And IF you buy a VFD to get 3 phase from your 240V you can get them even cheaper from school sales.

I bought this little pile:

for < $1,000 because they converted a woodworking shop to a computer lab.

And it included this Powermatic w/ a Bessemer fence:

I mainly wanted the planer

But if I HAD to buy new I would have gone with a SawStop.

 

[rswyan]

nb,

Nice score ! ... :thumbsup:

 

[dickfoster]

My Grandfather, who was a Master Carpenter trimmed part of his thumb in about 1956 on the Delta tablesaw which is now in my basement. The story goes I was playing around near him, distracted him, and whoops.

He hauled that from New York to Vermont and down to Florida, back to Vermont where when he passed in about 1977 I inherited it and eventually hauled it down to Virginia to two houses. By then it had been a key component of his work building houses and cabinets. Somewhere in it's travels the cast iron frame broke. I called Delta and it wasn't very expensive to get a new one. In the last 40 years I've probably only used it for about 20 hours a year and replaced 1 belt.




And IF you buy a VFD to get 3 phase from your 240V you can get them even cheaper from school sales.

I bought this little pile:

for < $1,000 because they converted a woodworking shop to a computer lab.

And it included this Powermatic w/ a Bessemer fence:

I mainly wanted the planer

But if I HAD to buy new I would have gone with a SawStop.

Nice score. Such a deal.