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   BruceS | Oct 05, 2011 10:51am | #1

   Magnets

   Have you checked out the magnetic feather boards?   They are the greatest.    You can also purchase the  switchable on/off magnets to attach to jigs and fixtures.    They are actually  much more convenient  than attaching to miter slots.

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   fordmantim | Oct 11, 2011 06:45am | #2

   Magnets

   That would be great if my top was cast iron. This saw is aluminum. I was thinking of mounting the saw in a cabinet and just attach "T" slots in dadoes? Maybe it would be cheaper to buy another saw.

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   roc | Oct 11, 2011 01:28pm | #3

   A woodworker has got to do what a woodworker has got to do.

   Reduces the amount of blade you can have above the table but . . .

   Dados in auxiliary wood top work great for miter slots.   I made up a mini table saw using my Porter Cable Trim saw ( a great saw ! ).

   http://www.amazon.com/Porter-Cable-314-4-5-2-Inch-Trim/dp/B0000222WY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1318351207&sr=8-1

   I cut out a snug fitting socket in the underside and used the threaded metal inserts shown to screw into .

   You may want to add metal track material made for this purpose by various suppliers to reduce wear and add glide.  For my rare use a bit of candle wax in the dados is all I need.

   I obviously use the same hunk of wood for my mini router table as well; note tiny dovetail shaped bit buried in the masonite.  Used it to cut mini sliding dovetails but that is another story.  Dovetail looks off center in photo but isn't.

   In any case I set it in a workmate and away we go.

   PS:  I know you are talking table saw and not circular saw; I just thought some one else might want to see more of my set up.

   As far as selling your table saw when you get another with miter slots . . . some people like to have more than one table saw and have one set up for square cross cuts and another for ripping or blade tilted setups but be able to come back to the first one for what that saw is set up for.

   I am not much of a tablesaw person so maybe sliding miter saws have filled that nitch.  I don't have one of those either so what do I know.

   
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   BruceS | Oct 11, 2011 05:41pm | #4

   Router cabinet

   Cool musical router stand,  Does it play "Knock on Wood" by Eddie Floyd ?

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   roc | Oct 11, 2011 06:27pm | #5

   Heck Yah !

   You picked right up on the sublties of the construction.