Well, today was the day! My 8 year old 52” Jet Xacta TS with Jessem Lift and Bosch router was sold and picked up. A few hours later my new Sawstop Professional 52” model was delivered. Pretty good timing! I will post images as soon as I have the saw assembled. I will have a saw lift party tomorrow at noon as it needs to be set in the Industrial mobile base. (which is recommended for the 3HP Prof model) A conversion kit comes with the base to adapt to the Professional and takes about 1/2 hour to install. Once together, I will be making a router table on the right laminate extension since my shop is small and I just don’t have the space for a dedicated router table. I have a PRL-V2 Woodpeckers lift going in and then I will have to rout channels for T-track for a Rockler fence. I will not be putting a mitre slot in as this would entail cutting into the saw’s rails which I don’t really want to do. I wil also be adding a downdraft dust collection box. I will then build a folding outfeed table somewhat following Jim Becker’s model. However, the fixed portion of my table will have to be narrower than his Again, small shop and I park my car in there when I can. Anyway , for those of you who are interested I will keep you apprised of my progress.
Here are pics of the old and the new.
saw-outfeed.jpg the-new.jpg