{"id":2360,"date":"2008-12-20T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T16:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hogonice.com\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2008-12-20T11:01:12","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T16:01:12","slug":"another-saw-to-be-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=2360","title":{"rendered":"Another Saw to be Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes Craigslist Works<\/em><\/p>\n

I’m stuck here waiting for someone, so I’m looking at power tools on Craigslist. Usually this stuff is awful. “DRILL PRESS – HARBOR FREIGHT – 5 YRS LIGHT USE – PAID $250, YOURS FOR $245.” And half the ads have no pictures, and they usually don’t have model numbers. <\/p>\n

Here’s how selling used junk works. You do not get 75% of what you paid. You get 50% or less, barring weird circumstances. And unless you provide photos and model numbers, no one has a clue what you’re selling, so why would they call you?<\/p>\n

Anyway, look what I found today: CLICK.<\/a> That’s a huge Powermatic table saw with a big extension. It has a 5 HP motor. It’s 220. They want $495. How can that be a bad deal? If you have to replace the motor and clean up the entire machine, you still come out way ahead.<\/p>\n

This ad is of no use to me. I can’t use a cabinet saw, even if it’s free. But it restores my faith in Craigslist.<\/p>\n

I probably should have bought a Rigid 3650 saw and mounted my router on a wing, but I had no idea what I was getting into. That saw comes with rollers. You can keep it alongside a wall until you need it, and then you wheel it out and go to town. It would actually be more convenient than my portable, except that it could never leave the garage.<\/p>\n

The saw I have is great, but there are limits to how you can accessorize it. You can’t put a wing on it. No router. Nothing magnetic. No tricked-out fences.<\/p>\n

Someday, when I have my semi-rural compound with machine-gun nests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes Craigslist Works I’m stuck here waiting for someone, so I’m looking at power tools on Craigslist. Usually this stuff is awful. “DRILL PRESS – HARBOR FREIGHT – 5 YRS LIGHT USE – PAID $250, YOURS FOR $245.” And half the ads have no pictures, and they usually don’t have model numbers. Here’s how selling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}