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Yeah, the long setup time will be OK, as it will only be doing one or two different tasks. Having had a track saw (the Makita one without a riving knife) jump across my fingers when it grabbed on an oak tabletop made me very aware of how sloppy I'd been with hand placement and safety in general.
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Ah cool - as a fixed set up kinda thing it’s pretty good, and will be easier to rig up some kind of extraction around. Took us a while to work out: there’s no spindle lock, blade change needs a hex key in the spindle and spanner on the reverse thread lock nut.
Oh also, it’s a Dewalt Shopmaster, but I’m sure you worked that out.
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We had a slightly older version of the same saw in the workshop, before the blade grabbed a work piece and went bang. A bit of cast alloy that makes up the body of the saw cracked in half, so we got a big Makita compound mitre saw to replace it.
Switching between angles / setups is a bit of a ballache and much slower than a modern mitre saw, but it will work perfectly well for most stuff. Wear a mask (always, of course) and expect your workshop to be covered in dust - extraction is non-existant. You could build a box around it, but this would limit easy of adjustability even more.
Be very careful of the blade grabbing and the saw jumping towards you. It probably won't do you any harm if your hands are in sensible places, but it'll destroy the piece and maybe itself.
Don't mean to be a downer, we used one for years with nothing but minor incidents, just be careful. They are good for chopping out cross lap joints.