"Lew Hodgett" wrote:

The Wood Manufacturing Technology program at Cerritos College here
in SoCal
has an old radial arm saw that they keep around just to show how
dangerous
the beast can be.

The only thing they use it for is to cross cut rough stock to rough
length
before proceding with finishing blanks to size.

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For the record, it's a 12" unit that has a many years on it.

The fact they only have one unit and it is restricted to cross cutting
rough
stock to rough length as the first step to size rough cut stock to
size
should tell you something.

BTW, they have at least 10, 10" table saws including Unisaw, General
and
PM 66.

All of these saws were swapped out for Saw Stop units 2 years ago.

As you might expect, safety is of prime concern.

The college has deep pockets and wants to keep them full of cash,
not lawsuits.

IMHO, the RAS is a beast that has outlived it's usefulness.

Lew