On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 08:10:00 -0700, "TomWoodman"
wrote:

These damn cast iron table saw tops are nuthin' but trubble!!! Isn't it
time to find a better solution?
How about .....


1. Granite
Hasn't been tried, but I suspect far two expensive and difficult to
machine and tap.
2. Teflon coatings
Been tested. wouldn't hold up. also expensive to add the coating to
whatever substrate. Tried some other polymer coatings at the polymer
center in USM, Hattiesburg. Also wouldn't hold up.
3. Hi tech plastic composites
Been tried. Delta introduced a very good builders saw about 15 years
ago. Saw was great. Top worked fine. Conservative ole woodwoking
market would not accept it. was discontinued after a couple of years.

4. Graphite
Too soft and too nasty.
5. Oak
Now you're talkin. why not


I'm votin' for oak. You just rub her down with some nice tung oil to
slick her up and every month you can run yank it off and
run her through your planer for a fresh new surface. The top would be in 12
inch wide 4 inch thick T & G sections so you can have a table as wide as
your shop....lol

Any other ideas? Let's have 'em. maybe we can get rich quick! lmfao.