This VideoJug film is a go-to film when you need to learn about the radial arm saw. You will learn details on how to adjust and work with this saw for wood projects.
We have a big old radial arm saw in the other workshop which is a large piece of kit. But in a small compact workshop, we use this one here because it will enable us to knock it down and move it elsewhere when we're not using it. This will everything that a radial arm will do but, as I say, in a shorter space.
Basically, it will pull towards you and chop anything from nothing to a foot wide. It compounds miters both ways so you can flip it to the left or the right to miter and you can miter from 60 degrees down to nothing. Simply by setting the lock in nut, when you've tilted it, it will lock it in place.
Now, this little kit on the side here, not many chop saws have got it, but this has got a radial arm on it. Basically just by tilting that knuckle down and adjusting this wing nut, that will adjust that for blade. So, when cutting trenches in wood, you can do it fast and effectively with this.
Now simply, I'll go over it again. That will enable me to chop right through the timber. Simply by pushing that down and adjusting the nut that will dictate the heart and rise of my blade.
So that's how we can use it for trenching. You have two wide fences on the sides to hold long work pieces but I also have a bench this can go in which also can lock in place which has three roller barons on either side, to enable me to slide long lengths of wood. As I say, this can cut up to a foot wide or it can cut down to a half inch by half inch.
A very useful piece of kit. .
