Thread: change of plans

Surely with both wings and fence rails removed the storage footprint must be manageable?

I’ve never had a use for either a table saw or an SCMS. I have a couple of Triton 2000 series workcentres for “heavy” carpentry along with a Kreg Accucut jig-thing; both the Triton and the Kreg have greater width capacity than any SCMS on the market. I do have a Dewalt chop saw; that has sufficient capacity for my needs but if it blew up tomorrow I don’t think I’d replace it until I had a project that really needed it.

Last year I made an “Anarchists Tool Chest” from those 600mm x 1800mm pine gluelam boards from Bunnings. They were cut roughly to length using the Kreg and the ends shot to perfect 90 degrees using an LA jack to creep up to a knife line. I couldn’t have got that level of accuracy on any table saw unless it had a slider; and the time taken to set it up wouldn’t have been far off what it took me to do it by hand.

A bit of a bummer, Tony.

If in doubt - procrastinate.

If you have to put other stuff into storage, the extra cost and effort of including the SCMS will be zero to negligible. So store it.

When the new place comes available, possibly after a temporary place, you may have plenty of workshop room and the first thing you might need is the SCMS to help set up the new place.

The devil you know!

I have a SCMS, bandsaw and track saw, and I regularly wish I had the space for a table saw. It depends on what work you do I guess, but I recommend trying to keep it.