New description for a RAS on CL

[Matt Day]

I've never heard this one before: "board ripper/splitter saw". What the? Who calls a radio arm saw a board ripper?

http:// cleveland.craigslist.org/tls/5206917468.html

[Patrick McCarthy]

What the? Who calls a radio arm saw a board ripper?

Just guessing, but maybe someone who would call a Radial Arm Saw a radio?

just a little jest; assume it was Autocorrect messing with you

[Matt Day]

It's hard to get sarcasm across the Internet ;-) I've actually never had a problem with autocorrect and radial btw.

[John McClanahan]

I have seen them referred to as radio saws many times. Sometimes as table saws. After all, they have a table. Don't get me started on those Potter & Cable tools, either!:D


John

[Jim Koepke]

Who calls a radio arm saw a board ripper?

Maybe someone who had a bad experience using it, being only able to get it to rip the heck out of some boards.

jtk

[Rick Potter]

Wait John!

Are you telling me they are not Potter Cable tools?

[Moses Yoder]

You are better off pretending to be stupid on Craigslist, you will get more responses. Just this ad for instance; if the guy had called it a radial arm saw he would have had 5 people look at it. Now a world wide forum has posted his ad on their page and is discussing it. Because of his ignorance, he is getting exposure in the multitudes of what he would have otherwise.

[Fred Perreault]

has anyone seen an ad for a "wheelbarrel"? I could use a used one :-)

[Charlie Velasquez]

What the? Who calls a radio arm saw a board ripper?I believe the correct CL descriptor is radio alarm saw.... Anyone knows radio arm makes no sense. ;)

[Brian Ashton]

What the? Who calls a radio arm saw a board ripper?



Same people that call a rebate plane a rabbit plane. :)