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Ya ,I got it last week, just unpacked it last night. This job I'm on right now...The gal's a nut, looking forward to using it on next weeks job ( would have to walk clear through the house to go out & cut).
I went to depot and purchased that small portable shop vac with major hp, also got one of those thingamajigs & attached it to the vac ( for auto turn on), tested it with the mitre saw, pretty slick.
Skill has a couple comments on the sight. One says it could use a laser. It looks kinda tough to see where your cutting, what do you think? The other says blade wears out quick, we'll see. Looks like Skill is selling the saw for more now then when we bought it , could be better investment than real estate

Going on day # 3 today. I use a mechanical pencil to mark width cuts...tongue against wall, mark net, cut off mark and it makes a perfect cut everytime. I can line up the cut on the hole for the saw blade pretty easily. Never been a fan of lasers cus I was always outside. But I could see the benefit inside.
Cuts clean upside down or topside...for now anyway.

Is it possible to follow a line freehand on a rip ? Or any freehand?? Or strictly fence work.
Cant wait to try it, have all kinds of inventive ideas, looks good on paper Why would you cut upside down Do you need mirrors ?

Good questions. Have not tried the freehand cus my walls/layouts are perfectly straight.

It's all about smoke and mirrors Howard.

Did you by this gadget or the cheaper one?

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BTW what happened to Jerry, anyone seen him lately? FYI Dan over at FI.com said he had to take his back cus the blade stopped and the motor kept going on the first day or was that the second. No matter ours is still running strong. It's saving me so much time I might break even with this trash that Armstrong made.

Yup, That's the gadget I went for, ( the cheaper scared me), bolted it on to the back of the vac. All I gotta do is plug the saw into that switch and the switch into the wall. It turns the vac on right away, ( from the rpms of the saw), then stays on about 5 seconds after the cut.
I gotta start giving that saw the torture test, you only have a month to return it.
You know they sell those lazers cheap at HF, ( one you can mount on top of the saw, and one that fits on the arbor ), not sure about that arbor size though.
Nope, sure havent seen Jerry post, or Gary for that matter. Emailed Gary, kinda concerned, didnt hear back, hopefully just super busy.

If I have to run a board through on an angle to make a tapered rip cut, it seems that it could get hung up on the sides of the machine. Where as wit ha normal table saw, there's no limit / obstructions on either side of the saw

One other thing is vacuum hook up. I sometimes hook up my vac to my saws to keep the job site as clean as possible and keep customers impressed.Otherwise a decent concept

It has it's limits big time when in comes to tablesaw cutting. I'm sure the next model will address that.
But it has great points that make it well worth the investment, over and over, way more than I care to list right now.
It does have vacume hookup. And with a high horse vacume and an auto switch it's super clean. I would never cut inside a home, ( even with a vacume attached ), with this saw I can.
I'm glad Stephen talked me into it !

Tanks Howard, I'm sure Skil is glad as well.

I like that I can cut lefty or righty and only have to spin around to make a cross cut. I hate getting up and down all day as most of my floors are gluedowns or floaters. Even with a nail down I can see tons of time saved ....why I could make four cuts before a guy could walk out to make one cut outside.

The table saw thing is acceptable and I always carry one anyway for those odd ball rips.

Oh and changing from a 45 to a straight cut or vice versa is a snap.Actually easier than any miter saw.

Just got back from a visit to the local Habitat For Humanity "Resell Store", ( they get a lot of donations from Lowes ), and they had 4 brand new blades for the 3600 at 4 bucks a piece .

Ya , the usual up and down is a drag, not to mention all the walking to get to the saws, wasted time and energy.
I'ts gonna be too bad when the "upstairs jobs" roll in, or when it's 115 degrees and I'm cuttin in the HVAC