OK, so you are saying there were 2 saws, the contractor and the Unisaw. I
stand corrected, I never noticed the Unisaw. The contractors saw probably
stood out more for me as during the beginning years I was interested in
getting a Delta Contractors saw that was sitting around at work not being
used.


"LRod" wrote in message
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On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 00:20:59 GMT, "Leon"
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"LRod" wrote in message
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There were nine (sort of) Shopsmith tools used, mostly in the first
season. Interestingly, never the saw. Of course that's because there's
been a Unisaur there from the very first episode. It was a Rockwell
originally, but a Delta replaced in '84 (6th season). Space was never
the issue. The shop has been the same building since episode #1.

LRod, recheck your records, IIRC you are correct that the Shopsmith was
never used as a TS but I do remember a Delta Contractors saw being used
before the Unisaw.

Nope, the (a) Unisaw has been there from the first. The first two
episodes of the second season featured the contractors saw as did a
later episode builidng the garage workshop. Pardon a little whoring,
but if you go to the Norm's Tools section of my site and click on
either "Delta" or "Saws" and then click on "Contractors Saw" you'll
see I have it documented much as I've said here.

What may be confusing you is that for a long time (I couldn't/don't
want to tell you how many episodes) the safety speech featured a cut
on the contractors saw, and for most of the second season you could
see it sitting over in the corner near the door.

But thanks for the challenge.

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LRod

Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite

Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999

http://www.woodbutcher.net