On 3/30/2010 3:57 PM, EXT wrote:

Hey, I looked at your photo and saw my RAS with a larger table. I rarely
use it, but it still is handy for the cuts that it can only do. Mine was
bought in 1971 when I was trimming out the house that I had built (I am
still living in it). It was branded TECO as it was purchased from a
Canadian department store (since closed) called T. Eaton Co., therefore
the brand name. I understand it was a OMA model that a US department
store also sold under its own name.

I bought mine about a year later than you did, as my first stationary
tool for restoration work on my first house in Poughkeepsie, NY - and
two years ago was given an earlier model (perhaps the same model as yours).

I bought mine from Montgomery Wards and it was branded "ToolKraft". The
current table is a tad larger than the factory version and I use it
almost as much as the table saw, which came along about two years later.
I've been well-pleased with the saw, and have only needed to square it
up after relocations.

The original MDF table held up fairly well until the floods of '93, then
turned mouldy and warped like crazy - so when I set up shop in 2001 one
of the first things I did was make the new (plywood) table.

It's a keeper.

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
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