DocGlock

My first RAS was the Shopsmith version that was out of production when I bought it in the late 70's (wish i had kept it for its antique value alone), and then a new Crafstman 10" RAS in the early-mid 80's that I built a house with, before selling it 15 years later with the thought of purchasing a big high quality RAS later, but never could come up with a good enough reason.
A few years ago I purchased a Festool plunge saw/table and a good quality Bandsaw and disassembled my Unisaw setup to see if I could get by without a Table saw (for safety and moving out of country issues). I decided that I still need the Unisaw for tenons and a few repetitive rip-cut projects, but am convinced I do not need the RAS, anymore. With a router mount on the Festool fence I can cut endless dadoes, any angle crosscuts and anything else I thought I needed a RAS to do. I even can replace most of my sliding compound miter saw uses with the Festool with home-made dedicated short fence fixtures -- think of a simple miter box with a short length of Festool fence at fixed angles, always locked in perfectly at 45, 90, 22-1/2, etc. Anyway, I digress to illustrate a point -- most tools can be eliminated by other tools, except for that ONE special cut -- but I can't think of that cut for the RAS.