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   DougU | Dec 30, 2006 05:38am | #1

   When you figure it out please post the picture of it!

   I think you could make a panel saw with a circular saw easier.

   Doug

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   brownbagg | Dec 30, 2006 06:03am | #2

   yes but its not being used. I figure lay plywood on table and zip, cut across. I have to cut 32 inches by 48 inches out of 16 sheets of plywood. Thats 48 pieces.

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   DougU | Dec 30, 2006 06:07am | #3

   Whats your max that you can cut with the radial arm saw? It'll be tough to turn the piece around and cut with any accuracy, even if your rad saw did cut 1/2 way through, which I doubt it does.

   Doug

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   brownbagg | Dec 30, 2006 06:17am | #4

   i think it cut at max 24, i wish i could add a beam to let it slide 48

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   DougU | Dec 30, 2006 07:54am | #7

   I dont see any way that you will be able to add to the beam, not saying it cant be done, I'm sure it can, hell you got a welder!

   I still want to see a pic of the machine.

   Doug

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   brownbagg | Dec 30, 2006 06:18am | #5

   im sorry i dont know what it slides, its in the shop. too cold to go look, almost 70

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   Shep | Dec 30, 2006 06:19am | #6

   I've seen some big, old radials that will crosscut 24". I think it had a 16" blade.

   That thing sounded scary when it was started.

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   NickNukeEm | Dec 30, 2006 05:09pm | #13

   I had an uncle who lost an arm to one of those.  He had one of those pincer type prosthetics.  Pretty scary to a young kid, the old grizzled old guy looking at you, his metal pincher clicking open and shut...

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   Gunner | Dec 30, 2006 05:18pm | #14

      Can't you turn our head sideways and feed them through like an upside down table saw? That's the way I used to do it with my old Craftsman before I got wise and sold it.

    

    

    

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   McDesign | Dec 30, 2006 05:32pm | #15

   Wait - let me get this straight.  First I turn my head sideways, then I turn my table saw upside-down . . .

   And then you got wise?

   ;-)

   Actually, I've use the same Craftsman - Grandad's.  Works okay for me

   Forrest - waiting to get wise

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   Gunner | Dec 30, 2006 05:38pm | #16

     I didn't mind mine. The big problem was I ddin't use it very much. One day. I came to the realization that for the little bit I use it, and the amount of room it takes up, and the potential for big trouble if I made a slip it wasn't worth having around.

    

    

    

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   MarkH | Dec 30, 2006 08:29pm | #17

   My bro in law was using his dads old RA saw in his garage.  It didn't have a guard on it.  I pulled in the driveway as he ran out of the garage holding a badly bleeding hand.  I felt sick when I saw it, ran up to him figuring something was sawn off.  But he was cutting a little piece of plywood and it bound up, and was driven through his palm.  No extreme damage, but he had to get stitched back together.  Pretty nasty though.

   You should have seen the blade on the saw, it was wrecked!

   Edited 12/30/2006 12:30 pm ET by MarkH

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   Gunner | Dec 30, 2006 08:48pm | #19

   I guess that was another reason for getting rid of it. Too easy to bind it up.

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   Piffin | Dec 30, 2006 02:11pm | #8

   For no more cuts than that, by time you re-rig the saw on a bewam, you could have these all cut with a circ saw and straightedge guide, probably more accurately

    

    

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   IMERC | Dec 30, 2006 02:20pm | #9

   stack cut them too... 

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   Piffin | Dec 30, 2006 02:48pm | #11

   clamps and three at a time.
   I could have it done by the time a person can read this thread - when it finally gets done.But for somebody who likes to tinker with stuff, the project itself would be fun. Junkhound would be good on this committee. 

    

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   IMERC | Dec 30, 2006 02:56pm | #12

   that he would be..

   I'd just stcked them and used a 8 or 10" CS.... 

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->

   WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->

   Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

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   doodabug | Dec 30, 2006 08:45pm | #18

   Unless the edges are left exposed I think I would just stack cut freehand.

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   dedubya | Dec 30, 2006 02:21pm | #10

   when I owned my machine shop, a machinest that

   worked for me took a old B&D Radial arm saw and

   welded up a new bigger arm with stiffners,then machined

   new tracks and fitted them  so the saw's roller wheels

   could travel a total of 50",he didnt have but about a hundred

   bucks in it when he was though----not counting the time

   he probley worked on it, on my dime,but I do remember

   he picked all his new roller wheels ect. from the bearring

   supply house we did buisness with.