Resurrecting this thread because it deserves to be!
The past few months has been transitory for me for Table saws. My primary T Saw was a pair of Craftsman 100 10" table saws I made a stand for and bolted side by side. I had one wing mounted, and left the other off as it made the combined saws too big to store.
This was it:
This allowed me to have one setup for cutting and one for dado blades
Prior to those two, I had one of them and a Delta home-craft mated together. When I got the second 100 I rebuilt it for the two 100's
This was the Delta:
All three got sold in the past two months or so.
I'd finally concluded I didn't need an oversize T Saw as I use a guide and my Skill saw for plywood, and all I really ever did with the big T saw was rip long cuts. Too many other options for most other things a T Saw can be used for, so I sold them. (I'd had this argument with myself for several years...)
Once gone I was down to just one tiny 1936 ish Sears Companion 7" Tilting table saw, which I had got while buying a vise that was bolted to its bench! and I'd used
IT for most ripping the past few years, rather than drag out the big guy. Fence boards other rips cuts, it all worked! I even did a few with it tilted!
Most recently I used it and a small mitering, sliding chop saw to build a pair of camp gear boxes out of old oak pallet wood. I even made a finger joint fixture and finger jointed the corners of the boxes! (First time I'd ever done any finger jointing)
This was it setup for getting the crooked as hell Oak pallet boards straight. (needs a LONG fence and that was a bed frame angle...)
The drawback to the little table was NOT its size, but the tilting table vs a tilting arbor, the Arbor was 1/2" (means adapting most available blades...) and the arbor was SHORT! and I could not use either of my wobble dados on it! I also could not use my Delta Tenoning jig on it, as the guide groove are too narrow adn not deep enough without modification...
I'd seen a couple of the "new" (1937-41....) Tilting arbor Atlas made T saws on GJ, and liked them, They had a good rep as heavy duty, and they had a cool micrometer adjusting Fence I liked the idea of. The 8} wasn't too big either! So I've been watching for one.
Yesterday I found one on CL. contacted the guy, and made the 5 hour round trip this AM to go get it! It was missing the motor, a miter, the riving plate and guard, and the motor mount was broken. but for $20 it was a go!
Here it is:
The motor mount is an easy fix with a Door hinge bolted to the motor and mount remnant, which I could tell from pics before I made the drive.
After I got home I discover I had the correct miter for this saw in "the collection!"
The delta Tenon jig also fits, and once I move the guide about 1/4" it clears the blade.
I can make the riving plate, and I should be able to find a blade guard that I can put on the plate. I may even add the anti kickback jaws! (I never had a saw until the 1936 companion with any blade guard or riving plate!
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More Pics of the "new" (~80 years old) saw:
The miter - It does not have the factory angle set knob, but who is gripping!
The delta Tenon jig:
