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Re: Keeping my contractor's saw ( Allen )

Charlie Lenz
Allen, we also park our vehicles in the garage/shop. I just remove the motor at the end of the day to scoot it up against the wall, takes about a minute to do. The motor hanging out the back isn't an issue for me, I have a removable outfeed table that I almost allways use since most of what I do with the saw is ripping. Dust collection I have solved in a very user friendly and efficient manner. You know what you want and what you can afford. My biggest grip is when people say that one of the reasons for going to a Hybrid saw or a cabinet saw is dust collection, so I buckled down and spent alot of time figureing out how I could improve it, since there appeared to be a market for it. Well after all these years I've come to the conclusion that dust collection is just another excuse, like more power, and the trunions is. I've never had to realign my saw. I just recently bought a older Delta 12" 2 hp thickness planer with a extra set of new Freud blades, it's quite a chunk of iron and made in the USA, but I sometimes wonder why I bought it, the deal is that I got it for less then what I'd have to pay for an imported DeWalt 735. I'm still on the fence thinking about weather I should keep it or not since I don't do much woodworking anymore. The old Ryobi that I bought new many years ago is still pluging along, but I worry about how how much more life is left in it.

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