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   baobab | Oct 18, 2011 07:33pm | #1

   I have a 3hp professional sawstop and i'm happy with it. They have the best costumer service I have ever seen. Any question just call, they help. My saw had a problem: occasionally it stopped for no reasons. I called the service department and they said there was a problem with a contact in other saws. Thus they send a replacement part  with overnight delivery. They were at the telephone to help for replacing the part but there was no reason. It was easy. For the dado there is no problem just change the brake cartridge. I hope this will help.

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   baobab | Oct 18, 2011 07:35pm | #2

   I have a 3hp professional sawstop and i'm happy with it. They have the best costumer service I have ever seen. Any question just call, they help. My saw had a problem: occasionally it stopped for no reasons. I called the service department and they said there was a problem with a contact in other saws. Thus they send a replacement part  with overnight delivery. They were at the telephone to help for replacing the part but there was no reason. It was easy. For the dado there is no problem just change the brake cartridge. I hope this will help.

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   bones | Oct 18, 2011 08:01pm | #3

   same prinicple

   Same principle just wider brake.  8" blade max  per their specs.   I'd love to have one.  Let us know how you like it.  

     http://www.sawstop.com/products/industrial-cabinet-saw/specs/

   You can do a dado up to 13/16" 

   Me I do dado's with a router anyway, but there's your specks. 

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   rfalk | Nov 22, 2011 08:05pm | #4

   I have an ICS Sawstop....

   and my only beef with it is the pain in changing from a normal blade to dado...not only does it require changing the cartridge, but also adjusting the distance from the blade to the cartridge to make sure the safety feature works. It becomes tedious if one wants to go back and forth from dadoing to crosscutting/ripping.

    I am actually thinking of finding a second SS and have one as a rip/crosscut machine and the other as a dedicated dado machine.

   My $0.02