I’d already taken up about 15 minutes of the presenter’s time and I probably could have spent the next hour feeding different wood through the table saw, but there were people setting up to film behind me and I still hand’t tested out all the tools I wanted to. And that’s the whole point behind these FlexVolt, they should feel just like you are using a corded tool.Īlso the there were no burn marks anywhere along the entire length of the ripped oak board. The motor didn’t seem to slowing down at all during the cut. I was simply able to push the board through the blade without having to slow the feed rate at all. I really couldn’t feel any difference ripping the oak on the new FlexVolt Saw vs. One thing you notice right away is the saw is quite a bit quieter than a corded saw. They had a 745 table saw set up right next to the FlexVolt saw, and when you turned that saw on it was definitely louder. I set the fence to rip a narrow strip out of the board and turned on the saw. Having ripped a lot of oak boards on my table saw, I know that if the saw isn’t set up right or the blade is dull, you’ll burn the oak. They gave me a choice of ripping some 2x SPF or a 1″ oak board. The guy doing the demo said that way you could get your hand in there safely to push the material through, but I still think that’s way too close.
What this does is move the fence away from the blade when you are ripping thinner materials. What’s new, or at least I can’t find this feature on any other Dewalt saw, is that the flip down support has a second position that allows it to be down over the table. It is meant to support the work piece by the fence when the fence isn’t over the table.
This has been incorporated into Dewalt jobsite saws for a long time. The last feature that I found interesting was the flip-down work support.
Possibly you could fit a pair of box joint cutting blades onto the arbor, but it’ll be interesting to see if Dewalt says anything about that. I did get a chance to look at the arbor of the FlexVolt saw and there is really no way you could fit a dado stack on it. Maybe he was thinking of the DW745 ( $299 via Amazon), which does not have dado capabilities. Plus, there’s a dado plate available for my DW744 saw. Interestingly, the Dewalt employee at the demo refused to officially admit that my DW744 table saw had dado capability even though they show you right in the manual. Maybe we’ll see a full-size 10-inch cordless table saw join the 120V Max lineup.r Plus, it takes less power to turn the smaller blade. The rationale here is that most users only need the capacity of an 8-1/4″ blade, making the saw smaller than a 10″ saw would have to be.
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