What is this vintage table saw worth?
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Craig Bernhardt
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How "vintage" is it, like Mark Twain vintage?
isb cornbinder
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craftsman/Sears is dead in Canada. So, that saw is worth scrap weight, around here. Anyway, the base looks bent. Check for damage if you are going to buy it. The saw appears to be a tilting arbor, so, it is not all that vintage.
Kscardsfan
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I see the saws going for 50-150 depending on condition. The base is what people go crazy over in this area.
Ok. Old? Hell, IDK. It was the saw I grew up using when my family owned an RV dealership. Repaired a sh@t ton of dry rotted trailers using it. Doesn't really have any sentimental value for me and it's heavy as hell. Maybe I'll just donate it. I'm not into tool restoration other than watching YouTube videos about it.
Kscardsfan
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If you were close I’d take it and give it a good home amongst all the other stupid things I’ve picked up lol
crguy
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I never understood the attraction to those bases. Too small of a footprint to be stable.
The base is worth as much, or more, than the saw.
neophyte
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The value of “stationary” equipment, that cannot be easily shipped thru UPS/USPS/Fedex etc. is highly regional.
If you live near a major urban area with lots of “makers” the prices might be fairly high.
If you live in some rural or suburban area, were almost everybody had a home shop, then the prices aren’t going to be great, especially if there are condition issues.
The vintage column Craftsman equipment like that sort of looks “cool” so there might be more interest just because of that with the right audience.
For crguy;
The reason for that style of base was likely modularity, and maybe compactness for shipping.
Those bases were used for a variety of equipment, sometimes with more than one column.
Since a column system is already used for Drill Presses, which are and were a fairly standard tool. Most of the same equipment and setup could be used for machining the post mount in the base castings for a tablesaw or whatever, as would be used for machining the column mount in the base casting for a drill press.
The same tubular steel used for the drill press column could also be used for the base column on the saw making supply logistics easier.
Most equipment that used this type of column base, was essentially old school “Benchtop” sized machinery, although usually made with heavier castings than current benchtop machinery.
If a machine was slightly talker or shorter, using the equipment on a benchtop might be slightly harder for some people depending on height.
Witha column system like this, the column height could be made shorter or taller easily by the manufacturer to get whatever they considered the “proper” height, and I presume an owner could purchase the appropriate sized steel to make the stand taller or shorter if the were handy, to customize the height if necessary.
Were tablesaws routinely being used for breaking down large sheet material when these saw were being made?, Or was that mistly left for a handheld circular saw, or a Radio Arm Saw with a shop built table?
If you live near a major urban area with lots of “makers” the prices might be fairly high.
If you live in some rural or suburban area, were almost everybody had a home shop, then the prices aren’t going to be great, especially if there are condition issues.
The vintage column Craftsman equipment like that sort of looks “cool” so there might be more interest just because of that with the right audience.
For crguy;
The reason for that style of base was likely modularity, and maybe compactness for shipping.
Those bases were used for a variety of equipment, sometimes with more than one column.
Since a column system is already used for Drill Presses, which are and were a fairly standard tool. Most of the same equipment and setup could be used for machining the post mount in the base castings for a tablesaw or whatever, as would be used for machining the column mount in the base casting for a drill press.
The same tubular steel used for the drill press column could also be used for the base column on the saw making supply logistics easier.
Most equipment that used this type of column base, was essentially old school “Benchtop” sized machinery, although usually made with heavier castings than current benchtop machinery.
If a machine was slightly talker or shorter, using the equipment on a benchtop might be slightly harder for some people depending on height.
Witha column system like this, the column height could be made shorter or taller easily by the manufacturer to get whatever they considered the “proper” height, and I presume an owner could purchase the appropriate sized steel to make the stand taller or shorter if the were handy, to customize the height if necessary.
Were tablesaws routinely being used for breaking down large sheet material when these saw were being made?, Or was that mistly left for a handheld circular saw, or a Radio Arm Saw with a shop built table?
I built many subwoofer boxes on that table when I was younger. 4 x 8 sheets of MDF were challenging to say the least.
