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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:03:28 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:
RAS's are a nasty piece of gear. A blade with sharp teeth at 3500 RPM is
not only dangerous as is..but now we're hanging that on a little
carriage?!?!?!

I'm always mystified at the prejudice displayed toward RASs by those who have
never owned and rarely used one.

Radial arm saws are WAAAAAY safer than table saws.

Aside from the OP possibly being a troll ...otherwise he should take
up knitting ... How do you compare when ripping? I watched a
neighbour trying to manipulate with one arm on either side of the
blade. I *gave* him a table saw. Now he's making money. The RAS has
its uses which improve on the TS, but the TS is my choice for ripping,
and a few other odds and sods. Safety is not so much the tool as the
idiot using it [been there in spades.]