Chief's Roof Skill Saw

[ChiefChris]

wasn't dewalt bought by black & decker? (they also own Porter-Cable, Delta, & Oldham Saw)

i have no dewalt. i've also had bad luck with them. my last dewalt was a hammer-drill that just ended up in the dumpster. i do like their 7¼" sawblades though - i think the yellow paint makes them cut better...

[Dan Park]

I don't know what Louis was talking about but this is my version:

Create a polyline and subtract it from the roof.

In the attached image I am cutting a curve on the edge of a roof by using a spline to get the right shape then converting that spline to a polyline.

Subtracting the edge you will see that I now have a curved edge on my roof plane.

[styleito]

Dan, does that work in v10?

Chris, Dewalt was bought by Black & Decker. That's why, aside from the color, my Dewalt saw looks exactly like my old Sawcat. But, the quality definitely dropped off.

Allen, I have two Sawcats in various states of disrepair. My last one had some serious miles on it. I wore about a 3/32 groove in the armature where the brushes make contact. I had to bevel the corners of the brushes the last couple of times that I changed them. You don't have one of the really old Sawcats do you? The ones with the lightning fast break. Those were very nice saws.

[Dan Park]

[quote=styleito]Dan, does that work in v10?

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It should.

[styleito]

It should.

OK, thanks. I'll try again later.


Allen, I got my first one around 1990. I did some searching on the google and the old one I was speaking of looks like this:

http://jim-frizzell.com/Projects/HTM...ack_decker.htm

They had a break that would completely stop the blade in about two seconds.

The ones I had looked like this:

http://stlouis.craigslist.org/tls/329472807.html

Both models are Super Sawcats and both pivot from the front from a fixed point behind the blade.