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   jako17 | Feb 20, 2003 06:24am | #1

   If your radial saw has a 90 deg elbow on it remove it and plug the vac straight in .Also remove any internal roughness from the casting.Take great care if you are ripping on a radial saw or the vac may be picking up more than dust.Keeping the blade aligned to the fence is really critical in this function

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   mfg_king | Feb 20, 2003 10:16pm | #2

   This is a little off subject, but you guys may want to know about this: most Craftsman RAS's have been recalled because of faulty guards and if you go to this website and plug in your saws information, you may get all new guards and a new table shipped to you for free. I got my stuff in about 5 working days no cost to me. (BTW the new guard casting has the dust port on the back where it should probibly be)

   Check it out:  http://www.radialarmsawrecall.com/

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   71Atlas | Feb 23, 2003 05:28am | #4

   My saw does't fall under the recall program. Thanks anyway.

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   noone51 | Feb 23, 2003 09:12pm | #7

   That was pretty cool.. I just ordered my replacement parts. Thanks for the info.

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   mfg_king | Feb 24, 2003 06:03am | #8

   Yes, cool indeed, but not very well advertised by Emerson so spread the word.

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   Kevin | Feb 25, 2003 06:28am | #9

   Thanks for the recall info. But there is no kit available for my saw, so the way I understand the deal, either I get the $100.00 and send back the saw, and buy a new saw, or keep the saw like it is.  DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE TO YOU?

   ???? Kevin

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   Jeff | Feb 25, 2003 02:55pm | #10

   Not to me.

   I was offered the same thing onmy saw.

   I decided to keep it.

   jeff

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   mfg_king | Feb 25, 2003 07:51pm | #11

   No, but it's not my deal. They only want the carriage/motor so does that mean they will ship it back to you after they retrofit it? Now that would make sense.

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   Jeff | Feb 26, 2003 03:14am | #12

   No, you get $100 and you then use it to buy a new saw.

   Jeff

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   Kevin | Feb 26, 2003 06:13am | #13

   Thats all I could get from them is the $100 deal to buy a new saw, I just wanted to make sure that I was getting the right information from emmerson.

   JUST CHECKING,

   Thanks Kevin

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   71Atlas | Feb 23, 2003 05:27am | #3

   Thanks but the exaust port is directly under the support arm and I have to use the 90 degree elbow.

   Still looking for a solution.

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   jako17 | Feb 23, 2003 03:30pm | #5

   Can you suspend some kind of conical boot from the arm in line of fire of the dust stream?

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   cutter | Feb 23, 2003 05:47pm | #6

   Ryan, I just ran about 600 bf of cedar through my RAS to cut tongue's on it.Yes chip collection is a pain.I set my shop vac under the table,used 2 1/2" hose up to a reducer to fit the elbow and it worked pretty well.Large chips will sometimes clog that small elbow but all in all didn't work to bad.SGB

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   cutoffcollector | Feb 26, 2003 04:59pm | #14

   I also have a sears 10" ras and here's how I handle dust collection. I have a 16 gallon 6.5 hp shop vacuum that is normally connected to the crosscut sawdust collector that I built and installed behind the blade. The vacuum is located to the left of the saw. When I rip cut, I loop the vacuum hose over the top of the arm making sure that it is located BEHIND THE FENCE and therefore will not interfere with feeding the wood through the cut. I connect the floor vac attachment (the one that has the opening about 2" x 6" and angled) to the open hose end and face the attachment towards the back of blade area. The saw carrige should be in the rip  position, registered for the width of cut and the arm lowered to cutting position. I use a bungee cord with hooks on both ends in the following manner to hold the hose in place. I connect one end of the bungee cord to the knob on the front of the blade guard, loop it around the back of the motor, then under the handle, over the end of the vacuum hose close to where it connects to the attachment and continuing around the blade guard, coneect the other end of the bungee cord to the same knob as above. The attachment on the hose end is adjusted to face the back of the blade and usually I have the lowest part of the attachment resting just above the anti-kickback pawls (and the fence if I'm making a narrow rip cut). This set-up will capture the majority of the dust. I also have a small cannister vacuum that we previously used for vacuuming the house with 1 1/2" hose that is connected to the port on the guard. I keep it under the saw. Hope the above info helps.

   Jon in the valley.