Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:
Leon wrote:
I bought a new one in 1979 and built "lots" of furniture with it
until 1983. I added a Craftsman TS in 1983 and the RAS only
collected dust from that point on.

IMHO they are marginally better than a skil saw. I would advise
getting a better brand RAS if you are dead set on getting one over
a
typical TS.


I bought a Craftsman RAS as my first big tool back around 1992. My
biggest complaint was how easy it was to stop the blade and pop a
circuit breaker. Once I bought a Ridgid table saw I seldom used the
RAS any more.

If it was easy to stop the blade and pop a circuit breaker then odds
are that it was on an inadequately sized circuit. Mine used to do
that. I put in a 220 outlet and rewired it for 220 and the problem
went away. If it popped the breaker on the line instead of the
overload breaker on the saw then the circuit was almost certainly
undersized for the load that was on it.

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