I decided to look for an old Dewalt with 24" of crosscut capacity. It will eliminate the need to use my giant TS sled when crosscutting panels wider than the 14" my other RAS's can muster. With a 14" blade I'll be able to cut most molding vertically, too. With some sage advice from Doug Tapper, I looked for a medium arm GA, and found one for a good price, but 7 hours away. Oh well, I went 5 hours for my MiniMax J/P, what's another 2 hours.
Last week I took my trailer to Philidelphia to get it. It was being used in a cabinet shop for rough cutting stock, a fate many an old Dewalt is tasked with. Great guys running this business making high end cabinetry, Philidelphia Woodworking should you care to see what they do. The saw looked to be in as good a shape as the photos they had sent me. 3 hp, single phase motor on it. It was the last machine in the 9000 sq ft shop. They are moving to a new 15000 sq ft facility and won't need to saw anymore because they bought a new upcut saw with automated Tiger Stop system. They sold the saw for $300, which I thought was a fantastic price.
I cut the cord near the motor and pulled the motor and carriage off the arm and put that into my car. I also blocked the arm with a piece of wood and strapped it to the table, and wrapped the arm and column with stretch wrap. We drug it over to the loading dock and got it onto my trailer for the trip home. Here it is just across the street from their shop.
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It was an uneventful trip home other than a couple of the new straps I bought from HF kept loosening. After retightening them twice I took them off and replaced them with some other ones I had with me, not quite as stout but at least they stayed tight. Once home I slid the saw off the trailer into my garage and began the disassembly process in order to get it down into my basement shop.
I jacked the arm up off the column with a scissors jack.
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Once it cleared the column I lowered it as far as I could and then picked it up. It weighed far less than I anticipated, fortunately, maybe 60 lbs. Getting the column out of the base turned out to be the hardest challenge. It slid easily in the base casting except for the last couple of inches. I ended up tipping the table over, removing the column and base casting from the table, and then whacking the base casting with a rubber mallet to get it off.
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The legs are bolted to the table, which was important, because together they would be too large to fit through the doorway to my basement.
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So, it's apart and the parts are all down in my shop now ready for reassembly and then a new table. Stay tuned.
John
Last week I took my trailer to Philidelphia to get it. It was being used in a cabinet shop for rough cutting stock, a fate many an old Dewalt is tasked with. Great guys running this business making high end cabinetry, Philidelphia Woodworking should you care to see what they do. The saw looked to be in as good a shape as the photos they had sent me. 3 hp, single phase motor on it. It was the last machine in the 9000 sq ft shop. They are moving to a new 15000 sq ft facility and won't need to saw anymore because they bought a new upcut saw with automated Tiger Stop system. They sold the saw for $300, which I thought was a fantastic price.
I cut the cord near the motor and pulled the motor and carriage off the arm and put that into my car. I also blocked the arm with a piece of wood and strapped it to the table, and wrapped the arm and column with stretch wrap. We drug it over to the loading dock and got it onto my trailer for the trip home. Here it is just across the street from their shop.
It was an uneventful trip home other than a couple of the new straps I bought from HF kept loosening. After retightening them twice I took them off and replaced them with some other ones I had with me, not quite as stout but at least they stayed tight. Once home I slid the saw off the trailer into my garage and began the disassembly process in order to get it down into my basement shop.
I jacked the arm up off the column with a scissors jack.
Once it cleared the column I lowered it as far as I could and then picked it up. It weighed far less than I anticipated, fortunately, maybe 60 lbs. Getting the column out of the base turned out to be the hardest challenge. It slid easily in the base casting except for the last couple of inches. I ended up tipping the table over, removing the column and base casting from the table, and then whacking the base casting with a rubber mallet to get it off.
The legs are bolted to the table, which was important, because together they would be too large to fit through the doorway to my basement.
So, it's apart and the parts are all down in my shop now ready for reassembly and then a new table. Stay tuned.
John