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David Nebenzahl David Nebenzahl is offline
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Default No Electricity Table Saw

On 10/26/2009 3:41 PM Lew Hodgett spake thus:

Maybe some Festool competition.

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/200...tables_aw.html


Couple-three things:

$1300? **** no.

Per several comments on the /Make/ page, the plastic bevel gears and
aluminum parts look cheesy.

There's a real ergonomic problem he unless you have a helper, you
need one hand to crank the saw, leaving only one other hand to guide the
work.

A better arrangement might be to use a foot treadle. Before the advent
of power tools, there were lots and lots of treadle-powered tools, from
drill presses to jigsaws.


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