Anyone know much about a "Yuba shopsmith radial arm saw"?
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03-17-2019, 06:43 PM
There's one for sale locally and an excellent price and I'm thinking of getting one for dado work.
Anyone know how good they are? 
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Wild Turkey We may see the writing on the wall, but all we do is criticize the handwriting. (joined 10/1999) ▼ 
03-17-2019, 08:15 PM
Heres a few links, I think I recall hearing about them but have no personal knowledge. Now ask me about Deltas or DeWalts and that is a different story...
http://www.tool-hunter.com/shopsmith-pos...ory-review https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=...yZFsBdo3tW 
03-18-2019, 03:29 PM
(03-17-2019, 06:43 PM)Wild Turkey Wrote: There's one for sale locally and an excellent price and I'm thinking of getting one for dado work. Is it the same ad as the one selling here? https://lasvegas.craigslist.org/tls/d/he...38035.html ▼
03-18-2019, 04:45 PM
(03-18-2019, 03:29 PM)jimmyjam Wrote: Is it the same ad as the one selling here? Nope, this one's in Louisville. Think I'm gonna pass. Read that they're hard to keep square. 
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03-18-2019, 06:00 PM
(03-18-2019, 04:45 PM)Wild Turkey Wrote: Nope, this one's in Louisville. From what I can see online, I'm not terribly impressed either. Looks like one of the old Wards Powercraft saws, the adjustment of square to the table crosscut reminds me of the old sears saws. And I wasn't impressed with that saw either. It seems to use some sort of conical plug to lock the arm at 90, which if it worked like the sears version, didn't stay locked very long. The one neat feature it did have was an offset arbor that let you get more depth of cut with what was then the big "9" homeowner blade. They combined that with a variable speed system, hey they built the shopsmith after all. Used what looked like an aluminum arm, again not that impressive compared to the cast iron Dewalts and Deltas. A typical for the time big box RAS marketed to do anything and everything. 
03-20-2019, 12:05 AM
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