I have a long drive home every day, which gets me to thinking. Tonight I was thinking about how much of a pain my tablesaw sled is. It's made of 3/4" ply and mounted on an old 8" saw.
I won't be replacing that saw soon, because I'd rather replace it with something that's a bit out of my budget at the time. But that sled stops me from making through cuts on thicker wood. I have to take one cut and then flip to complete.
I was thinking that if the sled was of thinner material, it would give me more cutting depth, but thinner wood is asking for trouble. So I thought of aluminum. And immediately wondered why I'd never heard of an aluminum sled. Which makes me think that someone has thought of it and rejected it for some really good reason that I couldn't come up with.
Is there a reason that a TS sled can't be made out of 1/4" aluminum plate?
Tanus