Interesting Slider

[Peter Kelly]

At my vendor's shop in São Paulo and noticed these:

http://i.imgur.com/KDjUMlR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/kFVnLjv.jpg

Nice low-cost adaptation of a cabinet-style saw to a slider. I think they aren't terribly expensive. Build quality looks very good as far as I could tell.

OEM: http://www.baldan.ind.br/produto/serra-circular-esquadrejadeira-2500-mm

Greetings from Brasil!

[Jim Becker]

Well, that thing should certainly support a lot of weight on that outrigger! This is pretty much optimized for panels with the lack of a normal sliding wagon, including heavy or stacked material. Clearly, there's little consideration for dust control and some safety concern with that fully exposed blade... :eek:

[Joel Daros]

These extension arms are a 3º world attempt to make a cheap slider machine.
It works? Yes, but its far away from a decent and precise real slider machine. It isn't cheap also, about U$ 1.800 to U$ 4.000.

[Peter Kelly]

The shop has some others of this same saw, most of them had their blade guards, dust pickup and riving knife still installed. For reasons I can't understand, the two shown above had theirs removed. I think they're primarily used for packing crates and odd cuts. Bulk of the panel sizing at this facility is done with beam saws or flat-table machining centers.

Traffic in São Paulo is a nightmare.

[Peter Kelly]

Turns out they have a bit less sophisticated version of the same design here...

http://i.imgur.com/gAgX8Q0.jpg

Greeting from Rio.

[jack forsberg]

Turns out they have a bit less sophisticated version of the same design here...

http://i.imgur.com/gAgX8Q0.jpg

Greeting from Rio.
Peter reminds me of the very early Bursgreen MY sliders of the late 1940s These were made before Wadkin bought the company from John Sagar of Halifax England in 1956 to form Wadkin Bursgreen some may have heard of . it is no wounder why Wadkin picked up this innovative maker

http://i927.photobucket.com/albums/ad111/tool613/wadkin/BursgreenMYwith6ftslidingtablecirca.jpg (http://s927.photobucket.com/user/tool613/media/wadkin/BursgreenMYwith6ftslidingtablecirca.jpg.html)

one of the very first panel saw in the UK

[Erik Loza]

Turns out they have a bit less sophisticated version of the same design here...

http://i.imgur.com/gAgX8Q0.jpg

Greeting from Rio.


Hahahah..... WOW

Erik

[Jim Becker]

A real heavy-weight, that last one is!! LOL

[Peter Kelly]

Just noticed the distro box the saw is plugged into...

[Jesse Busenitz]

Just noticed the distro box the saw is plugged into...

Haha! I was in Manaus, this Feb. and they definitely do electrical a little different down there.

[Keith Pleas]

http://i.imgur.com/gAgX8Q0.jpg

I like the protective cap on the end of the right-hand pipe. Yep, if I only had one cap that would be the correct pipe - but two caps would be better. :)

[Peter Kelly]

*protective cup

[julian abram]

When I look at these units the main word that comes to my mind is "Dangerous".

[Peter Kelly]

Should see how it was operated, had to turn my head every time I walked by...

Also the blade of that thing was missing about 30% of its teeth.