On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7:36:55 PM UTC-7, Tom Gardner wrote:
I would really like to have a panel saw at home but they are costly.
Has anybody seen plans?

One appealing design used steel fencepost tubing (large
section, a lot of bending moment at a low price per foot)
for rails, and a U-bolt with a dozen or more plastic washers was
the linear bearing (you use several of those). You just
need the U-bolt inner diameter and tubing OD to mismatch
in size by the washers' standoff distance.