Yep. I worked in a shop that had a lot of machinery that had been converted from overhead to motor driven. Industrial multi horse 3 phase motors. One of the machines was a 20" blade tablesaw. That thing was shapely cast iron. Real neat. The most unusual part of that machine was that the table went up and down, not the blade. Was dangerous as hell, but not because of that. The switch for the motor was attached in a spot that your knee would hit and turn that fucker on if you leaned over the table to adjust the fence- which was tape measure and tap the fence type stuff.
Yep. I worked in a shop that had a lot of machinery that had been converted from overhead to motor driven. Industrial multi horse 3 phase motors. One of the machines was a 20" blade tablesaw. That thing was shapely cast iron. Real neat. The most unusual part of that machine was that the table went up and down, not the blade. Was dangerous as hell, but not because of that. The switch for the motor was attached in a spot that your knee would hit and turn that fucker on if you leaned over the table to adjust the fence- which was tape measure and tap the fence type stuff.
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