Doug Winterburn wrote:

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:14:40 +0000, George E. Cawthon wrote:

Hmm. I prefer the rear parts covered; all parts of the table with the
same height. Don't know what the big deal is about raising and lowering
the arm. It just takes a couple of turns of the crank.

Well, the OP was saying what a pain in the tookas it was to raise and
lower the arm every time he had to change the arm for mitering, and I
thought I'd show him how raising/lowering the arm was unneceessary with a
properly set up saw. Covering just the front part of the table is
standard procedure in the three books I have on RAS setup and use, and it
has worked well for me for 35 years.

-Doug

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then you and I will still each have one apple.
But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these
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You're right, you're just answering the op's question, I didn't intend
to criticize. I should have put my comment under the OP's comment. I
raise and lower my saw blade all the time-- to change the blade, to
swing the arm left or right, to swing the saw blade from cross to rip,
to cut less than full depth, and some others. I just can't see the
problem that the OP has--raising and lower the blade of my table saw
is as much a problem. You go, crank crank (in about the same time as
it takes to read it), and the saw is up or down.