"Leon" lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote


Well you may have answered your own question there Doug. While most every
one will agree that the RAS is not comforting to use in the rip
application, it is indeed built and intended to be used to rip material.
So that is probably why most every one would prefer to never use one.

FWIW I owned one for about 5 years and build a lot of furniture that I
still own today and did quite a bit of ripping with it. For me I had more
problems with it while crosscutting, probably because I did mostly cross
cutting but I never got used to cutting into a narley SYP knot and the
blade and motor trying to climb up over the board rather than cut through
the knot, for what ever reason. ;~)

Three years after buying it I added a contractors saw to my shop and
literally never used the RAS again.



I've never had a problem with a RAS (I've never tried ripping) but my son
cross cut a piece of Oak and it climbed on him, broke a tooth off the blade,
misaligned the saw and he hasn't used it since.
Contrariwise, I've had a couple pieces of wood slung at me from a table saw.
Go figger. G

Max