skyking1
Senior Member
Sears would buy the motor head back to get it out of the world. They sold a ton of those saws.If one only knew the total amount of incidents each year from wrong use of a multiplier.
The common table saw-30,000 plus incidents a year from Kick Back and major limb loss.
Radial arm saw-wrong blade and have a tendency to climb the cut-No one sells a radial arm
saw anymore IIRC.
I had one from FIL, and one day I was digging in a new water line and the customer had a sears radial arm saw similar to mine in a nice shop.
Bingo!
I asked him if he wanted another, and he was thrilled to get it and I was happy to have it gone. When I got the plane out of the way I called him up and he came and got it. That was a win-win.
One thing you can do with them is to pull the motor, and build an adapter plate for a router. Now you have a great tool for cutting dados in shelves, much faster than setting up a dado blade on the table saw and you can tool it up nice and make precision shelf sides. You can set up a stop system on the fence.