TimC

Hi,

No one seems to stock contractor sized table saws in store and I'm trying to figure out if I can make it work in my small piece of real estate in the garage. The home depot website specifications don't look accurate (height =22 inches??). Can anyone tell me the dimensions of the saw? I need to know how high it is and the depth and width of the top including fence/rails, etc (i.e., how much space will I need at the table height)?

thanks for any help,

Tim

MTL

Just got mine a couple weeks ago, it is 37" high 57" wide and 32" deep.

Dont forget to add room for the stock you plan to send in the front and out the back!

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TimC

Hey - thanks very much for the info!

tackbb

I have ths saw in a 10x12 shop and it works okay, it is interesting to plan big cuts but with some creativity it is possible.

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Howard Ferstler

If the fit is tight, consider the same company's model R4510 jobsite saw. Not only does it take up less floor space, it is also considerably more portable - important in small shops. I have a big deck adjacent to my shop and I just wheel the saw out there when I have projects to do. I did a review of this saw on this site a while back. It is at:

Fine table saw made even better with some mods

I did do some modifications, and the review outlines them.

Howard Ferstler

TimC

Thanks Howard and those are nice mods! I'm thinking space is probably going to be too tight for me and I will wind up with a job site saw. I'm a small time hobbyist so will probably be fine for me. I was lookin at the rigid or Bosch one and kinda leaning toward the Bosch for the extension accessories you can get for it but both get great reviews.

Howard Ferstler

Both are good saws, and the controlling factor might simply be price.

I will say that the fence and miter gauge on the RIdgid saw look more subtantial than the ones I have seen on the Bosch in store displays.

My own workshop is jammed with tools, and I generally work outdoors on an adjacent deck. It is easy to roll the saw (as well as most of my other floor-standing tools, most of which have been mounted on small wheels) out onto the deck for projects. My yard is one of those "natural" types, so I can use a dust-collecting blower to just blast sawdust out into the wooded area.

Attached are some photos of the shop interior and exterior. (You can see the Ridgid saw folded up under the big stand that holds the Ridgid sliding miter saw.) There is actually another room out of camera range that holds my drill presses and sanding equipment. The drill presses are not on wheels and stay indoors, however.

I have done product reviews of quite a bit of the equipment in the shop right here on this hobby site. A name search should allow them to be located.

Howard Ferstler

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jeffski1

my rigid 4512 is in a 12x14 space,it works just fine,you just move it out the way when not in use.all my stands including my workbench are on castors.Jeff

TimC

Howard - thanks again for your very helpful response. I could build a nice workbench and store the saw underneath like you have done so that's a great idea.

Tim

TimC

Thanks Jeff - my issue is that it would make it tight when I had to pull in my truck (e.g., when a hail storm is on the way). I think it's going to be a little too tight for me based on the measurements.

Howard Ferstler

Actually, the "bench" under which the saw sits is a rolling work stand that holds the 12-inch Ridgid sliding miter saw. (I broke down a fixed metal stand that had almost useless spindly legs and mounted the top section of that stand on the 2x4 rolling stand that I built for that task.) However, there is a fixed workbench on the right in the first photo (also shown the second photo I posted) that has a rollout section underneath it, allowing me to have a portable bench out on the deck. Two Ridgid shop vacs (one for pushing dirt; one for pulling dirt) are on the rollout's lower shelf.

To be truthful, it took me months to figure out how to arrange all of that gear in the shop (the building has three rooms, with one in the back just used for storage), because I was acquiring new stuff on a regular basis and I kept having to reconfigure the place to hold the new gear properly to make it easy to either use the stuff inside or pull the mobile stuff outdoors.

Three more shots are attached, with one showing the floor-standing drill area and some other gear viewed through the interior door from where the saw sits, the second showing some of the sanding gear in that drill room, and the third showing some of the hand drills and drivers, and attendent gear.

I have a lot of tools, and most of them are not all that upscale. However, I am not doing all that much "upscale" work, anyway, so economy stuff works just fine. I have used the gear for projects running from adding additional truss bracing in my attic, to installing solid-wood door replacements inside the house, to building loudspeakers and night stands. It has been great fun, but to tell the truth now I am running out of space in the house itself for finished workpieces.

Maybe I should start a business, although I am kinda old to be getting into that kind of trade.

Howard Ferstler

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cocheseuga

Howard, that's a great looking shop. If you have a tour or a thread dedicated to it, please let me know.

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Howard Ferstler

There is no tour or thread, but I think I have posted descriptive photos of it elsewhere on this site several months back, and I also have written reviews of several of the tools shown in the shop, often describing how I made some improvements. Heck, I love to diddle with tools and make them work better almost as much as I love working with them to make finished wooden products.

I think I have also posted photos and descriptions of some of the items I have made with those tools.

I think a simple "Search" of my name on this site will come up with a few of my site contributions.

The remarkable thing that I retired about eight years ago and only then started to obtain tools and build stuff. I told my wife that I needed a few items to make it easier to fix and build simple things around the house, and, well, I kinda got carried away.

The interesting thing is that I was an audio-hobby writer for years (an avocation, since I worked for a university at my day job) and have published two books on AV, two of recording reviews, over 150 magazine articles, and helped to write and edit the second, two-volume edition of The Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound and later the Routledge Guide to Music Technology. Woodworking has served me well, because I used the tools and what I know about them to build some nice speakers (I was an equipment reviewer, too, and some of the speakers I built are equal to those built by anybody else) and equipment cabinets. A name search on Google will pull up some of my non-woodworking contributions to various subject areas.

In any case, woodworking is a fine creative hobby for me, relative newcomer (compared to some of the genuine expert old-timers here on this site) though I may be.

Howard Ferstler