Spindle Accessories for Craftsman Radial Arm Saw
Chris
spindle opposite the blade. Above this reads, "Accessory Shaft". Any
idea where I can find some of these accessories, and are they worth
having?
Thanks,
Chris
Douglas Miller
search for "radial arm saw accessories"
Never used any of these, don't know if they're worthwhile or not.
Regards,
Doug Miller
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leonard lopez
counterclockwise and push.You have a horizontal boring machine. You can
also put a sanding drum on there. The sleeves are a bi t expensive.
Len
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Ralph Coolbaugh
dados across panels? Seems a tad slow but ....
Rusty Myers
slow. I got terrible tearout and had to feed at a crawl to get that. Still
have the darn thing hanging on the pegboard. Keep thinking I will find some
other use for it.
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Rusty Myers
Austin, TX
"Ralph Coolbaugh" <NOrcoolb...@ibis.com> wrote in message
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Dustmaker
Have had the RAS for about 15 years and can't remember getting any good use
out of the drill chuck. Use the drum sander all the time. Can keep in
horizontal for a quick hand held trim or remove the blade and turn it
vertical for use against a raised table.
I find the size of the drum and the speed & power of the saw motor to make
the drum sander an excellent accessory. Don't use up my drums quickly so I
can't comment on the cost.
BTW Despite all the well placed criticism of Sears, I wouldn't have many
tools if it weren't for Sears sales. Furthermore, I have high regard for
the Sears RAS now that I have put the right blade on it. (A CMT with
negative hook angle)
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David Hall
> In article <d27ad25d.03021...@posting.google.com>, woodw...@shebangaudio.com (Chris) wrote:
> >I have a Craftsman RAS. There is a little plastic cap on the motor
> >spindle opposite the blade. Above this reads, "Accessory Shaft". Any
> >idea where I can find some of these accessories, and are they worth
> >having?
> >
> www.sears.com
> search for "radial arm saw accessories"
>
> Never used any of these, don't know if they're worthwhile or not.
>
> Regards,
> Doug Miller
WOW!! A drum sander and a 1/4" collet -- I am going to town with my
RAS tonite!
Seriously, I believe that you can get a flex shaft for it. Most of the
accessories that they sold for Craftsman RAS' in the 1960s have been
discontinued due to silliness. I have a 1960s era catalog at home that
if I can find I will list a few of them. I think that they had an air
compressor, a planing device, & some others that escape me at the
moment.
Dave Hall
Mike
on!). I made a raised table and use it as a horizontal boring machine
for dowels. (I use my Rockwell 16" RAS for sawing).
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Thomas Kohlman
"accessory shaft". Tool seemed to be perfect for an overhead router but
that left me with 1/8 in slices through the left thumbnail when the piece
turned on me...but a very interesting "painting" on the opposing wall (if
you like red)...won't go into the details of what happened next as the nail
bed started growing over the still attached nail slices.
...tried the drill chuck also for a horizontal borer, but not for long.
Problem with any of the attachments is that there is way too much flex in
the arm/yoke/fence to get any accuracy. As suggested, a flex shaft might be
harmless (although you lack speed control).
My advice is to use it as a RAS. Spend the money on tools that are designed
to do what Sears thought you could do with the "accessory shaft"
six weeks of peroxide and nail clippers tr , that being the router collet
that
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2manytoyz
machine for hacking your hand! I've used mine as an overhead router too.
My hands are a long way from the bit. I'll drive screws into my RAS
tabletop to mount a holding jig rather than use my hand.
A friend seriously damaged his thumb with a Moto-tool -w- flexible shaft.
He was using a serrated cutoff blade and it did a "lap" around his thumb.
Cut so deep that it did permanent nerve damage. Again, not the fault of
tool. Just didn't have enough respect (aka: fear) of the tool. Don't get
any ideas that a flex shaft is necessarily safer by design.
Though I'm 38 this month, I still remember the two days of medical videos we
had to watch in 8th grade shop class. With both hands over our faces, we
watched what happens to body parts when confronted with a carbide blade.
Made us all sick and scared the hell out of us. Never lost the fear. Only
damaged my hands with screwdrivers and hammers. Videos didn't cover those!
Can't say it won't ever happen, but I do everything possible to prevent it.
Chris, you can use the spindle accessory safely, but it's not as accurate as
you'd hope. I keep it around just in case I run into a situation where this
may be my best or only option.
As usual, YMMV. JMHO.
Robert
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Douglas Miller
>ab...@ameritech.net (Douglas Miller) wrote in message
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>> In article <d27ad25d.03021...@posting.google.com>,
> woodw...@shebangaudio.com (Chris) wrote:
>> >I have a Craftsman RAS. There is a little plastic cap on the motor
>> >spindle opposite the blade. Above this reads, "Accessory Shaft". Any
>> >idea where I can find some of these accessories, and are they worth
>> >having?
>> >
>> www.sears.com
>> search for "radial arm saw accessories"
>>
>> Never used any of these, don't know if they're worthwhile or not.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Doug Miller
>
>WOW!! A drum sander and a 1/4" collet -- I am going to town with my
>RAS tonite!
>
that I wonder if the OP did *any* searching on his own. :-)
David Hall
>>> >I have a Craftsman RAS. There is a little plastic cap on the motor
>>> >spindle opposite the blade. Above this reads, "Accessory Shaft". Any
>>> >idea where I can find some of these accessories, and are they worth
>>> >having?
Well, I got out my 1960-61 Sears Craftsman "Power Tools" catalog (65 pages). It
shows the following accesories for the RAS:
Molding head, Shaper arbor, shaper guard, Jointer/Planer attachment, sabre saw
attachment, rotary surface plane attachment, shaper fence, wire brush wheel,
drum sander, router, dovetail and carving bits, wood boring bits, sanding
wheel, sharpening wheels, and a drill chuck. Later on page 34 it shows a flex
shaft that fits the RAS along with all the grinding and polishing wheels for
it. I kind of doubt that they recommend many of these for use on the RAS today.
Another interesting thing in that catalog was the optional "floating ring
guard". This is a full enclosure guard that had they included with all their
RAs' would probably have kept them from the massive recall they dd a couple of
years ago. It says right in the catalog that this guard provides the " maximum
protectionbecause your hands are always safely away from the saw blade". This
they knew in 1960, but didn't make this a standard safety feature until the
1990s.
Dave Hall