Just saw this today – wow, I didn’t know anyone still made radail arm saws!
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I didn't know anyone did either, though I figured somebody must. I can't think of a better tool for cutting rabbets. Sliding miter saws always seem to have flimsy depth adjustments, and you can't turn them sideways for cutting lengthwise.
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I've got the older version of that - it's great for some things, and stays set up in the shop with the dust system where the CMS parks under the bench.
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I'm odd I guess, I consider a RAS indespensible in a well set up shop. It was my first real stationary power tool and I did everything imaginable with it..A good book was "The Magic of your Radial Arm Saw".
Man, I made raised panels, horizontal boring operations, shaped miles of moulding profiles, coved German lap siding, even had a surfacing planer disc. I once used it to make Vee-bottom ( from the ATB blade kerf) epoxy inlayed guitar finger board position markers. Colored epoxy with pearl dust.
Never gave it a thought to take it to a job site, except for one really big cedar shingle job..55 sq. and 8 dormers..cut lots of valley and ridges outta the wides.
Being as you aren't dimming the lights keying the trigger every cut, multiple cutting is a breeze. At one time I had two in line, one was on a sliding track to set the heads at whatever distance apart you want..optimizing rough lumber went real fast.
Got my old DeWalt/B&D 10" er still...50's or 60's vintage, sold my Sears when I moved into a real small shop, I still miss that sucker.
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