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Depending on your mark accuracy and setup. I was an early adopter, using a setup a guy in NJ developed before Festool and others came out with it. Festool has the most available accessories, and the Festool forum has many participants. I don't have a Festool track saw. My early setup is no longer made, but you used a platform mounted to your saw choice. Later, I adopted a European brand, Mafell, which has its nitch in the US. It's an expensive brand. I've merged some of the components of the early system into the Mafell. Squares and repeatable guides make track saw life easier. So, I've been able to modify what I had earlier to make "repeaters" to cut cabinet sides or other repeatable needs with the Mafell tools, depending on what I'm doing. But we all have our preferences. My wife's father and brother were cabinet makers with their own shop; Bill still has his pro tools, including a table saw, if I cared to use it. I haven't. I find it easier not to move plywood sheets around to cut.
I used Track Repeaters on each end when I was building the stairs in our house. I could have ripped them on my RAS, too, which I use much more than my portable table saw.
I have a smaller portable from decades ago but hardly use it. I've been using track saws for over two decades, building cabinets and everything else, using the tracks with saws and routers.
Have you ever used a track saw?
Portable is part of the problem.
I have not used a track saw, and as long as my PM2000 runs I probably never will. And somehow, the thing just keeps appreciating in value.
Powermatics are nice. It’s what my BIL has. Come to think of it, so does my wife’s brother, a wooden boat builder in ME.
I like the portability. I’ve used the track saws at the farm and when doing woodworking at my sons or at friends. I’ve built a few bench’s as other track-saw people have done for job site use. It’s how I got into 8020.
Powermatics are nice. It’s what my BIL has. Come to think of it, so does my wife’s brother, a wooden boat builder in ME.
I like the portability. I’ve used the track saws at the farm and when doing woodworking at my sons or at friends. I’ve built a few bench’s as other track-saw people have done for job site use. It’s how I got into 8020.
80/20 is great! I use it at work often. It’s expensive, but you can build complex fixtures and pretty much anything else with it.
I build my engine stand with it. I have a large quantity from when 8020 used to sell seconds on eBay. I use it to build fixtures, tear it down to build something else, then do it again. I didn't highlight them in the column build pictures I showed, but I used the 3030 and 1515 with brackets when gluing up the columns and lower boxes. I use it all the time.
Engine stand.
Fixturing when building the engine stand components.
Fixtured for welding.
An early version decades ago of my track saw table when building cabinets.
This is a later version from years ago. The track lifts up with the hinge platforms to set your sheets in place. You can use more bar stock as guides or limits and the fabrication plates as stops to make repeatable cuts without re-measuring. The groove in the 8020 is where the saw blade goes under the board. You have to keep aware of your depth limitation. 8020 is an adult erector set.
The 1515 doubled bars are set up so they can slide out, expanding the table to almost double its width if needed for sheet work.
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