It's been a couple days of researching but this is what I found. The base
unit of the Delta Cabinet saw (Taiwan model) is a 36-729. Depending upon
what you want for a fence, the model number changes. The 36-729 is the only
saw that Delta makes that requires a seperate (longer) arbor in order to use
a dado stack. You need another one yet if you want to use a molding head
cutter. You can't even just leave the longer one on because it will catch
on the table when you bevel the blade anything past 30 degrees. They
offered to get me the arbor but Delta says they don't exist yet and if they
do, they are either in China, Taiwan or possibly on a boat somewhere in
between.

Therefore, they are coming to pick my saw up and when they do, they will see
that I have a Grizzly jointer, bandsaw, drill press and air compressor.
What they won't see is the Griz cabinet saw that is going to replace the one
they are taking. I still like Delta, but they flubbed on this saw in my
opinion.

djd

Tom Kohlman wrote in message
et...
Delta contractor/Unisaws used to come with an arbor that would handle at
least 13/16ths. This must be a new gimmick on their part. You think you
are venting now, wait until you see what Delta charges for
accessories/parts! You'd need to mortgage your house to build a machine
from the parts catelog.

"V.E. Dorn" wrote in message
...
Had been planning to buy a Griz G1023SL cabinet saw because I've been
very
happy with all my other Griz purchases. I went to the local Tool Depot
when
they had their tool fair a couple of weeks ago and saw that Delta was
there
with their new cabinet saw the 36-730. It looked pretty good, was still
3
hp, had a 52 in Biez clone fence and they had a pretty sharp pencil. I
asked about the dado width and they rep looked it up in the catalog and
said
15/16. I bought the saw because it was only $200 more than the Griz and
had
the 52" rip capacity. I saw on their web site that the dado width was
5/8".
I called the factory to verify and they said it was a typo and that it
was
15/16". I see the web site has been changed.

Took delivery yesterday and was a little stunned to learn that you have
to
buy and "accesory" arbor to use a dado stack at all. While I may very
well
like the saw (not put together yet), I don't have a good taste already
because I belive I've been deceived by their not mentioning this when I
asked. I should have looked at the arbor length when I first viewed the
saw
but the insert has a screw to prevent taking it out - and I would have
never
dreamed that it would be different than any other saw they make. Are
Unisaws this way? Thanks for letting me vent.

Don