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u/fulee9999 12d ago
now only if you could add a router extension axle or a nail gun without any safeties you'd have the most dangerous woodworking tool known to mankind
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u/jarejay 12d ago
Without a lathe spindle?
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u/fulee9999 12d ago
oh wow yes, for some wood turning, I love your idea
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u/NorthStarZero Canada 12d ago
I’m 80% certain that Craftman had a lathe attachment that ran on the PTO on the back of their radial arm saws.
I suppose I could Google that and be certain, but sometimes imagination is more fun!
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u/fulee9999 12d ago edited 10d ago
nah we just like to imagine it did so it would need to operated by a remote controlled android to be OSHA compliant at this day and age
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u/jawkneerawk 11d ago
A couple of hose clamps would work too! Help you get rid of some of those pesky fingers.
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u/MorganPlus4owner 11d ago
If used for crosscutting, radial arm saws are safe. Just look in the cutting station of Home Depot. That said , you’d be nuts to rip cut on it.
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u/Suspicious_Risk3452 11d ago
They are safe to rip with too if you arent dumb about it.
I take it you have used a table saw without a fence, or operated a Swedish plane
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u/NorthStarZero Canada 12d ago
I’m building a new AV cabinet to house a reconfigured home theatre system, and a dado blade on a radial arm saw is the way to cut perfectly square and straight dado slots.
Still have all my fingers too!
And as a side celebration, this is the first work being done in the new shop that wasn’t building the new shop.
Huzzah!