Brad Ridgway
10-05-2008, 6:54 PM
I've been looking at the longer 26x and the 60" version... i've read the 4 pages of posts i could find on here. Bottom line i'm giving up space in a 20x20 shop, but with all the cabinets/etc i intend to build using guides is getting to be a pain.
Questions
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1) if i do the full size one, any recommendations on how to orient the saw in a two-car garage. I just got A/C put in - i used to feed from the outside into the saw which ran longways against the 16' door. Would be nice not to as i enjoy not pouring sweat all over the cast iron tops or unsafely wiping my forehead with my sleeve while trying to manhandle large sheets.
Here's my rough layout (see diagram at very bottom):
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=55466
but right now the PM66 is rotated 90 degrees starting at the jointers location. I will likely be moving the DC out of the shop boundaries.
2) I was considering a mobile base for my newly purchased 66 (an upgrade from my mobile general contractor). If i get the exaktor, thinking i should give up that and just plan a permanent installation including the outfeed table. I saw the post where a gentleman used angle iron to create supports exttending from the saw, but i'd fear moving it around like that. Anyone built a custom mobile base to make it all work?
3) will they hold up to repeated "dropping" of heavy 3/4 birch / MDF on them? Based on one pro shop usage of two for that purpose over years, it would seem so...
4) Is accuracy enough to not build any sleds?
5) dado's - someone mentioned/implied they used these for dadoes, but my issue i've always had is if the ply is slightly warped, you must press down with extreme force to get a consistent depth through the dado. Is that doable here since i think i'd push from further to the left of the saw? In conuunction with #4, i guess i wouldn't expect to cut dados in anything wider than 18" or so... I had been on using some toggle clamps and cawls on a miter sled in the like of Tolpin's for this...
thx in advance
-brad
Questions
----------
1) if i do the full size one, any recommendations on how to orient the saw in a two-car garage. I just got A/C put in - i used to feed from the outside into the saw which ran longways against the 16' door. Would be nice not to as i enjoy not pouring sweat all over the cast iron tops or unsafely wiping my forehead with my sleeve while trying to manhandle large sheets.
Here's my rough layout (see diagram at very bottom):
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=55466
but right now the PM66 is rotated 90 degrees starting at the jointers location. I will likely be moving the DC out of the shop boundaries.
2) I was considering a mobile base for my newly purchased 66 (an upgrade from my mobile general contractor). If i get the exaktor, thinking i should give up that and just plan a permanent installation including the outfeed table. I saw the post where a gentleman used angle iron to create supports exttending from the saw, but i'd fear moving it around like that. Anyone built a custom mobile base to make it all work?
3) will they hold up to repeated "dropping" of heavy 3/4 birch / MDF on them? Based on one pro shop usage of two for that purpose over years, it would seem so...
4) Is accuracy enough to not build any sleds?
5) dado's - someone mentioned/implied they used these for dadoes, but my issue i've always had is if the ply is slightly warped, you must press down with extreme force to get a consistent depth through the dado. Is that doable here since i think i'd push from further to the left of the saw? In conuunction with #4, i guess i wouldn't expect to cut dados in anything wider than 18" or so... I had been on using some toggle clamps and cawls on a miter sled in the like of Tolpin's for this...
thx in advance
-brad