Radial arm saw versus 12" compund sliding miter saw question.

[Leon]

> on page 9, column 3 refers to it as a "grooving stop" whose purpose is to

Keith would do well to get out more and look at the tools.

[J. Clarke]

Find me a car that breaks the driveshaft when you set the brakes and floor the accelerator.

Nope, not an analogous situation.

But I'll bet you're a real good lawyer because it's the sort of argument that one would come up with to get his bumbling incompetent of a client off the hook because his POS tool self-destructs.

[J. Clarke]

The message from which I cut and pasted the word "idiot" is

would you care to apologize for putting words in my mouth?

[FrozenNorth]

Poke away then. ;-)

[Leon]

Suggest another example. 07 Toyota 4WD Tundras are/were having drive shaft problems. You simply had to drive as designed to have the drive shaft break.

[Leon]

No I dont think so. I was not trying to fault you. Were you not the one that mentioned idiot?

[Gordon Shumway]

There is no end to your narrow-mindedness.

Gordon Shumway

Our Constitution needs to be used less as a shield for the guilty and more as a sword for the victim.

[J. Clarke]

Expecting a reasonable level of competence from engineers is not "narrow mindedness" except in your little liability-lawyer world.

[Charlie Groh]

I use that function regularly, as I will take a 1x or 3/4 ply long ripper and use it like a table (I have my SCMS set up in a holder with a wood/laminate support on either side, so I can securely attach a temporary "table" if I need to) and, naturally, don't want to cut through it. I've also done a quick dado or two or three...nothing really precise, gate stuff and such...

cg

[Charlie Groh]

>>> on page 9, column 3 refers to it as a "grooving stop" whose purpose is to

...yah, I own the first iteration of that saw and it's still working well after, oh, a dozen years? You guys are sure geeking the heck out of this topic...it's really very simple and just as Leon, and myself, have described.

Now, let's get something done, eh?

cg

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[dadiOH]

Glad it worked out for you :)

I do have a dandy sled, BTW, use it mostly for trimming panels up tp 3'x5', no good for long stuff as I have insufficient room for long stock to hang off the table; NP, I just plop it down on my RAS. If I didn't have that, I'd use saw horses and a circular saw. Where there is a will there is a way :)

[Leon]

Now that I have a cabinet saw I get great cross cut results and my CMS seldom sees any action any more. If I were to upgrade to a slider I make certain that it was one with a depth of cut stop.

[Leon]

There are several posters here that seem to know a lot about this or that subject, according to what they have read from a source that may be way outdated.

[Larry Jaques]

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 19:00:24 -0600, the infamous "Leon" scrawled the following:

on a $700 chop saw, thanks. "Open the screws."

to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. -- Thomas J. Watson

[Larry Jaques]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 07:05:54 -0600, the infamous "Leon" scrawled the following:

With a RAS, climb cutting is a reality. With a SCMS, the blade comes down and is pushed into the board at the opposite angle, preventing any binding that happens on a RAS.

BTW, I uses a RAS for the very first time last week, after my client doused my little chop saw with the hose.

-- Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. -- Thomas J. Watson

[Larry Jaques]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:06:01 -0500, the infamous "J. Clarke" scrawled the following:

Ah, but you forget that the marketing and bean counter types are also involved. Either one easily negates any sane and/or valid engineering input.

-- Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the dangers of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity. And on issues that seem important to you, stand up and be counted at any cost. -- Thomas J. Watson

[Larry Jaques]

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:43:11 -0500, the infamous "J. Clarke" scrawled the following:

After graduating from Universal Technical Institute in 1972, I got a job at the local Chebby dealership. Most of my time was supposed to be spent doing those fabulous lube and oil changes you hear about. Instead, I spend most of that (short) year doing motor mount campaigns. It seems that if one did what you suggest, the motor mount would shear off and floor the accelerator, much like the dangerous new Toyotas with their ~attack~ floor mats. the Chebby fix was a new pair of motor mounts and a pair of cables between the frame and engine block. The Toyota interim fix is to remove the ~attack~ floor mat.

Then there were the deadly Ford Pintos, which would explode upon simple impact of a two ton truck barreling along at 65mph and rear ending them squarely. The fix (which I also installed at a dealership, but Ford this time) was a 1/8" nylon plate which went under the gas tank straps to allow the differential bolts to slide past (instead of puncturing) the tank during a catastrophic collision.

And there were the Chebby pickups whose gas tanks would explode into flame if you t-boned 'em at freeway speeds (and they had a special explosive package installed by the filming crew.)

Those damned engineers, anyway... ;)

P.S: This is a fun thread!

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[Leon]

Festool is like "Crack". Once you toush it you can't leave it alone. ;~)

I just tried out their 75mm Circular saw and track. Swaeeeeeeeeeet

[Steve Turner]

Let go of the trigger and back away slowly from the Festool!

[Swingman]

Too late ... I was there, but he was hooked already.

BTW, Leon would make a helluva drug dealer, now I'm hooked too!

Just like I told my kids, be careful who you hang out with!