Plywood, Plywood, Plywood.

The outfeed should be bug enough to support your workpiece (not allow it to
fall off). Since arguably, a full sheet of plywood is the widest thing that
you will pass through your saw with any regularity, I would aim for 24"
support in either side of the blade and 48" past the blade.

That's the best starting point I can suggest, and adjust from there as shop
space allows.

You can also use a saw hosrse with a waxed board on top (set to the height
of your saw) as temporary additional support. IMHO this is *better* than a
roller stand as it will not pull you work if the roller is not perfectly
aligned.

-Steve


"Jay Chan" wrote in message
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I am planning to add an outfeed table to my table saw. I am wondering
how wide I should make the outfeed table.

My table saw has three sides: The center that is where the saw blade
and the two tracks are, the left wing, and the right wing. I can
understand the benefit of having outfeed table to cover the center
area, and the left wing. But I don't understand why I may need to
extend the outfeed table to cover the right wing of my table saw. Is
that mainly good for left handed people?

I guess I can use the large outfeed table to double as an assembling
table. But I don't have a pressing need for such a large assembling
table.

I may need to run a flex hose over that area. That is the reason why I
don't want to extend the outfeed table to cover that area. But I want
to know what I may miss in order to know the trade-off.

Thanks.

Jay Chan