If you have a Craftsman radial arm saw produced between 1958 and 1982, you might be able to get a $200 blade guard retrofit kit for free, as well as a new cutting surface, fence and associate parts!
So here's the deal: I was on Sears Parts Direct looking for new table parts for my '75-vintage 10" Craftsman, when I ran across a link to this site:
Apparently, the Consumer Safety Product Commission is making Emerson, who designed and supplied these saws to Sears, offer the full-blade guard kit to owners of any of these saws. My saw, like many others, shipped from the factory with the metal guard that covers only the upper half of the blade; the retrofit is the newer kind with the retractable clear plastic guard that fits the bottom half of the blade as well.
It gets better: the kit includes the entire table top and rip fence as well as new frame crossmembers. So, I signed up, poked in the serial number from my saw, and ordered the retrofit kit, which easily contains $300+ in parts, and it will be here in a few weeks.
Once I'm done, I'll basically have a newly-refurbished saw. So if you've got an oldie that looks like this:
go check it out!
So here's the deal: I was on Sears Parts Direct looking for new table parts for my '75-vintage 10" Craftsman, when I ran across a link to this site:
Apparently, the Consumer Safety Product Commission is making Emerson, who designed and supplied these saws to Sears, offer the full-blade guard kit to owners of any of these saws. My saw, like many others, shipped from the factory with the metal guard that covers only the upper half of the blade; the retrofit is the newer kind with the retractable clear plastic guard that fits the bottom half of the blade as well.
It gets better: the kit includes the entire table top and rip fence as well as new frame crossmembers. So, I signed up, poked in the serial number from my saw, and ordered the retrofit kit, which easily contains $300+ in parts, and it will be here in a few weeks.
Once I'm done, I'll basically have a newly-refurbished saw. So if you've got an oldie that looks like this:
go check it out!
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