On 1/18/2013 2:10 PM, dadiOH wrote:
Leon wrote:
On 1/18/2013 12:12 AM, Dave wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:34:41 -0600, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
But to answer your question, I do not miss cutting full sheets of
plywood on my TS. I did that for about 25 years and wish I'd had
this alternative 24 years ago. Keep in mind that the track saw
could replace the TS if quality of cut was the only factor.

I ask these questions in relation to my wheelchair. I can sit and
feed sheet plywood through the tablesaw, but I can't move and run a
track saw through plywood at the same time. I wish it was otherwise.

Two years ago, I bought a TS55 to see if there was some way I could
use it, but ended up exchanging it for an hl850e planer.

I never tried to use a planer to cut boards Dave.

Nor have I. But I did see someone try to do so with a joiner.

It was in a junior high shop class around 1946. When the teacher saw the
kid trying to cut through the board with the joiner he grabbed the kid, bent
him over a table and broke the board with the kid's butt. As I said, it was
1946 and things were different corporal punishment-wise then. And no, I
wasn't the kid.




The good old days, however It was 1969 for me. Use the jointer ONLY to
straighten or flatten a board, NEVER to clean up a cut or make the board
a specific thickness or width. Our shop teacher took base ball bats and
cut them long ways a few times to product 3~4 paddles.