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   | Aug 30, 2009 04:27pm | #1

   Hello RJT,

   I had an Inca 1250 table saw. It was the smaller 10" model with a tilting table and a slot mortise table on the left side. The only draw back to that machine was the tilting table and the size of the table. As I started working on more projects and larger ones, I decided that I needed a larger tilting arbor saw, so I bought a unisaw. The unisaw is fine but, I do miss the Inca, especially the slot mortise  table. As a point of interest, I purchased my Inca table saw new for $1200, I sold it 20 years later for $1000! The offers that came in stunned me. The machines are popular and it is obvious that people are willing to pay a good price to get one.

   I purchased slightly used Inca 10-1/4" jointer/planer two years before the saw, for $600. I still have it. Probably will sell it for a larger combo unit some day. It's another great machine and still runs like a top.

   As to what happened to the company, your guess is as good as any. Out of business I suspect.

   Bob, Tupper Lake, NY

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   dennis2 | Sep 02, 2009 10:01am | #10

   Hi Salamfam:There are still some of us who continue to use the Inca 259 table saw (that's the one with the tilting table)and love it. The saw has the precision of a swiss watch. and cuts wonderfully. I do use unisaws whenever I do projects for the Guild and find them crude in comparison.
   It would not work for a production shop, but they are still in high demand among musical instrument makers. I was offered $1,200.00 for mine and wasn't even tempted.Dennis

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   | Sep 02, 2009 03:37pm | #12

   Hello Dennis,

   Thanks for correcting me on the model number, your right, it was a 259. Yes I still long for the little saw at times. I would have liked to have had both the Unisaw and the Inca in the shop, but sadly, space and budget did not allow.

   I have attached a pic of my 259 just prior to crating and shipping to its new home.

   Bob, Tupper Lake, NY

   Edited 9/2/2009 8:39 am ET by salamfam

   Edited 9/2/2009 8:39 am ET by salamfam

   
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   forestgirl | Sep 02, 2009 09:22pm | #13

   That little saw is so sweet!  Wish I could have afforded to keep the one I found.  Congrats on having it, and keeping it in such pristine condition.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 

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   RJT | Sep 07, 2009 01:11am | #14

   Thanks for all the response, it always had my admiration, the tilting table is what always kept me from seriously considering it. It looks like a magnificently engineered machine.

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   DonC | Sep 07, 2009 07:31pm | #15

   I own 2 tilting arbor 12" table saws. Best saws I have ever used.

   List of merits.

   1.)  Best fence on any saw. Better than any aftermarket.

   3 postion aluminum fence with t slots. End of fence can be postion for entire width of saw of slide forward to just past the completed cut tooth of blade.

   2.) Fence rails are dovetailed. With the twist of a knob you can slide the 50 inch rails to left or right of blade. 1/32 inch fence scale for either side.

   3.) One screw throat plate that is flush every time.

   4.) Mortising table connected to Power take off

   5.) Rifing knife. bought this saw in the 70's years ahead of competition.

   6.) T slot miter gauge shots

   7.) No warp or rust anodized aircraft grade aluminum top

   8.) Blade raises and lower straight up and down not thru an arc like others.

   9.) Height of blade indicator.

   10. ) Blade tilt scale has degrees makeked approximately 1/4 inch apart. Setting for 22 1/2 degrees is dead on as well as all settings.

   11.) Dust collection designed by Mark Dungiske (sp) is so efficient that in all the years of ownership I probably have on cup of dust in the cabinet.

   12.) Blade changes simple due to arbor lock.

   13.) Extensions wings adapt for router use. Same fence for router table usage.

   14.) Safety guard is a dream to use. Only aftermarket Excaliber comes close.

   15.) Mfg's tool kit is as good as snap-on and is all you need to service the machine.

   16.) Owners manual is an education in itself.

   17.) Most important is the non-warping close tolerances and fit and finish.

   I am truely clueless why this saw didn't dominate the woodworking market. There is still a user's group on the net and buys can be made.

   You should see how accurate the radial arm saw is too.

   I have the saws facing each other. Each becomes an outfeed table to the one in use.

   I paid $2000.00 for each in the 70's. A Uhisaw or Powermatic with every conceivable aftermardet do-dad would still be inferior and cost more than $2000.00.

   Edited 9/7/2009 12:33 pm ET by DonC

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   nikkiwood | Sep 07, 2009 08:02pm | #16

   Are replacement parts still available for Inca quipment?********************************************************
   "It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts."

   John Wooden 1910-

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   dennis2 | Sep 07, 2009 11:22pm | #17

   1. No sorry Inca's parent company is out of woodworking. I suspect it's because they could not compete with the lower cost unisaws.2. Yes parts are still available from Eagle Tools in Los Angeles. (Ask for Jesse) Dennis

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   NietzschesMustache | Sep 08, 2009 12:11am | #18

   Here's the 2008 catalogue: http://www.inca.ch/labels/inca/pdf_preislisten/Produkteuebersicht.pdfPrices were updated Feb 2009They won't ship directly to the US or Canada.

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   RalphBarker | Sep 08, 2009 01:52am | #19

   "They won't ship directly to the US or Canada."Darn. Do you suppose an address in New Mexico might fool them? ;-)When a friend in West Virginia told a co-worker she and her husband were coming out for a visit, the co-worker said, "Don't you need a passport to travel there?"

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   NietzschesMustache | Sep 08, 2009 03:28am | #20

   Possibly, but I suspect dennis2 has the latest info. I couldn't find a price for the professional tischkreissäge (400V, 3Ø, 50Hz). In fact, nothing in the catalog shows up on the price list.

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   roc | Aug 30, 2009 06:00pm | #2

   Yes I would have liked to have one of those newer style Inca table saws ( not the table tilt version ) but allas :

   http://forums.taunton.com/fw-knots/messages?msg=43828.5

   Ralph seems to know about what happened to them but . . .

   Doesn't mean somebody couldn't start 'em up again.

   roc

   Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )

   
   

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   Edited 8/30/2009 11:02 am by roc

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   RalphBarker | Aug 30, 2009 08:19pm | #3

   Some time ago, I did some Web searching to confirm that Inca had gone out of business some years back, but I couldn't find the link this time.I bought an Inca 8" combo jointer/planer and their 18" bandsaw back in the 70s. Both are still running fine.

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   roc | Aug 30, 2009 08:31pm | #4

   As you know I am jealous of your jointer planer. Maybe some day I will buy a used one. Not this year though.Happy INCAing,rocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )

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   RalphBarker | Aug 30, 2009 08:58pm | #5

   "As you know I am jealous of your jointer planer."Well, it *is* green in color. ;-)Feel free to drop by any time to run a board through mine. Rio Rancho is only about 6" away, depending on the map. ;-)

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   roc | Aug 30, 2009 09:57pm | #8

   >drop by any time to run a board through mine. Rio Rancho is only about 6" away, depending on the map<The Lear' is in the shop getting fitted with the new titanium lumber racks; so not today but soon.Thanks for the inviterocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )

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   NietzschesMustache | Aug 30, 2009 09:37pm | #6

   I assume they're no longer imported.

   http://www.inca.ch/v1.x/index.html

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   roc | Aug 30, 2009 09:49pm | #7

   Aaaaahhhhaaa ! ! !very enlightening
   thank yourocGive me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. Abraham Lincoln ( 54° shaves )

   Edited 8/30/2009 2:50 pm by roc

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   forestgirl | Sep 01, 2009 07:26am | #9

   Alas, they are gone.  I bought an Inca 8" saw at a rummage sale 2 years ago, refurbished it and sold it for a tidy profit.  There are user groups (Yahoo), owners scattered all over the US, and a few places you can find owner's manuals and such. 

   I've always wondered if the tilting table might have been partially responsible for their demise.

   forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 
   
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   philip | Sep 02, 2009 11:26am | #11

   "
   "Whatever happened to Inca Table Saws?"
   Now being manufactured in France as far as I know, but whether they are being imported to USA I don't know.

   Philip Marcou