Bosch 4100 10" saw on a gravity rise stand. excellent small saw and the stand allows it to be easily moved while being incredibly stable. Plus you can store it folded vertically for a smaller footprint.
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Quoted from cottonm4:Why do you say portable saws are accidents waiting to happen? What's wrong with them, in your opinion?
Likely due to the small tabletop. People will still try to breakdown sheet goods on a portable. it works just fine if you use correct auxiliary support but if you don't support the sheet well it will flex which will lead to binding, and a high chance of kickback. A half sheet is easily manageable solo on a portable, but anything larger needs support and better yet support and a second person.
There's nothing wrong with portables.
Quoted from Spinape:Saw stop is nice. Expensive, and you need to replace the sensor after it hits what It thinks is flesh
They also tend to be over sensitive (not necessarily a bad thing when its a false positive, rather than being conservative and chewing a finger) with wet woods. Too wet of a piece can fool it into going off.
But if you are concerned about that you can bypass the sensor temporarily and cut in "normal saw mode" w/o the safety.
Quoted from vid1900:1. no one on Pinside cuts wet wood, lol.
(if they are building a deck, or some other "wet wood" project, they are using a chop saw, not a $$$$ cabinet saw)
2 the SawStop has a built in "wet wood" detector.
If you put a piece of wet wood on the table, and slide it up to the non-spinning blade, the lights flash to inform you the wood is wet.
3. You just turn the key if you need to cut conductive stock.
I cut 1/2" and 1" aluminum plate all the time on my Sawstop. The Sawstop reminds you that the material is conductive.
4. In the decade that I've owned the Sawstop (it replaced my Powermatic), I've NEVER ONCE TRIPPED THE SAFETY MECH.
It came with a spare mech, and I've never used it.
the question wasn't about cutting any specific wood, it was about saws in general. Sawstop can do a false positive. I also said you can turn off the sensor to avoid that issue when needed and cut in unprotected mode.
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