Dewalt Radial Arm Saw?

[Matt Hardy]

Can anyone tell me what DeWALT RAS this is and anything about it? Thanks!

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[Myk Rian]

If it's for sale, get it. That's one of the good ones. A GA perhaps?

[Matt Hardy]

If it's for sale, get it. That's one of the good ones. A GA perhaps?


It is for an asking price of $125. Any idea what size it is and what HP?

[John R Green]

Matt

Get it ASAP.
Then you can answer those questions yourself.

John

[Peter Quinn]

Cant tell from here, looks promising, worth a call. Could be a GR or a GA. Drop a line to the seller, should have a name plate with all the info, model, HP, power requirements. Looks like its 110 based on the light switch possibly starter on it, but these things came 110/220, 220 only, and 3 phase. Make sure you know which this is before buying.

[Mike Schuch]

It is a good saw if the ways aren't worn. It is scrap metal if the ways are worn.

Put a straight edge down on the table parallel to the arm so the point of one tooth of the blade is just touching the corner of the straight edge. Pull the carriage out. The saw tooth should just touch the straight edge the entire length of the pull. The fence can be adjusted to make it perpendicular. The table can be adjusted to make it flat to the arm. You can not adjust out a non linear path of the blade caused by warn ways. You will never get good sharp cuts if the carriage doesn't slide straight due to messed up ways. It is near impossible to machine the ways flat if they are messed up.

Most saws that have messed up ways are because someone transported the saw without supporting the weight of the carriage while it was being transported. Always put a couple of blocks of wood under the motor and lower the arm down taking the weight of the carriage off of the arm and transferring the weight to the blocks before you transport the saw!

I prefer Delta Turret arm saws (which happen to have replaceable ways) to Dewalts mostly because I grew up learning woodworking on Delta Turret arms. There are a lot of very happy Dewalt fanatics out there though!