We're beginning to finish the basement, including an 11' x 22' shop.The shop has an existing door; the door being a standard 3' door, ithas 33" of clear width when open. With this being a mild climate(northern California), I'll do quite a bit of woodworking outdoors forover half the year; the area right outside the basement is a flatpatio with concrete floor, in the shade of trees. 220V power isavailable both indoors and outdoors. All the larger machinery (like atablesaw) has to be on a mobile base, to be moved around within theshop (to make room for larger projects), and to be moved outside.Because of the space constraint, I'm restricting myself to saws with30" fences and without outfeed tables. Cutting of large plywoodpieces isn't done on the tablesaw; instead, it has to be done outdoorswith a circular saw along a straightedge guide. That's life forpeople that have a small shop.I would love to buy a really great tablesaw for the new shop (forexample a General 350/650), but there are a few problems. First, asaw that's physically that big uses way too much room when not in use.Second, it would not fit through the door, and I want a saw that canbe moved in and out of the shop. Third, a saw that heavy is probablynearly impossible to move over the 3/4" high door threshold, even on amobile base.So here's the question: What's the "best" tablesaw that can be movedthrough a 33" wide door, without having to disassemble it to much?Clearly, any benchtop saw (a good example is the Bosch 4000, or theRyobi BT3xxx) would fit fine; but they are just too small, often havenon-standard size miter slots, and don't have decent fences (not tospeak of undersized motors and so many other restrictions). I want asaw that is accurate enough for furniture woodworking, can take areasonable size dado set, and is handles standard accessories.Right now, I'm leaning towards either der DeWalt 746, or the JetSupersaw. I just measured the size of a Supersaw in the store: To fitthrough the...

Hi there,I will go out to the shop and measure my DW746 tomorrow and let you know. Iam pretty sure it will fit cause I believe it came in thru a 33" door.I upgraded my DW746 with the sliding table and one cast iron wing. Both aregreat additions. I had to fusted with mine for a while to get it set upright. The front fence rail had a slight twist to it but they replaced itright away for me.Chef

Table saw that fits through a 33" door?

Jan 21, 2004 23 Replies

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roger 22 years ago

My Delta Contractor saw is outside under a foot of snow (tarped). I have built "arms" at the stand base with 12" pneumatic tires attached to an axle between the arms. Though I don/t have room in my garage for the saw, I could roll that sucker ANYwhere I wanted! I set it up so the wheels are off the ground about an inch when the saw is sitting on the base legs. This setup with slightly underinflated tires will easily roll over 2x4 chunks that always seem to be laying about. I regard this as a stopgap measure as I will "someday" make a spot in the garage for it. We recently got down to 24 degrees below zero (Montana) and I've since fired it up after clearing snow off. (Picture a cast-iron wheelbarrow!)

I used to live in Mt. Shasta, CA and did enlarge my ground- floor door so I had a good roll-out to the patio.

Roger

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mttt 22 years ago

Ignore question about Timing Belt - see from above, yours is still alive and kicking. That's great news. I actually got a very early SuperSaw - Oct 2002 from Amazon.

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Bob Davis 22 years ago

No belt yet, but I'll probably buy a spare when they come back into stock (Feb 11).

When I bought the saw, I was not a very knowledgeable buyer. I just thought it was a nice saw and liked the dealer. I've been pretty happy with it. My next saw will be about $4000, so this one may be with me a long, long time.

Bob

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Bob Davis 22 years ago

Hey, that's an entertaining description, Roger. All you need is a steering wheel for your saw, now. :-)

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