DeWalt Model MBF

[kurt]

Joy of joy, I just acquired (for FREE!) a coveted DeWalt Model MBF radial arm saw, the only radial arm saw I've ever considered worth owning.

The entire thing is cast iron & weighs about 220 pounds. Every setting has adjustable dovetail ways, & the thing adjusts like a micrometer.

Made in the United States of America when DeWalt was a division of the American Machine & Foundry Company.

Anyone else got one of these? I'd love to talk.....

[Chad Fabry]

Hi Kurt,

I have an old 12 inch DeWalt that has the two arm or turret arm set up...is that it?

[kurt]

No, the MBF is the old 8" model that was most commonly used in tool & die shops & by modelmakers. Blade's too small for heavy work, but that's not what it's for.

Yours is the old lumber yard model, no?

[hausdok]

Arghh!!!

Tool envy is setting in. I can feel myself drawn to my tool catalogs and old copies of Fine Woodworking. Must...resist....have....work...to...do........

OT - OF!!!

M.

[Chad Fabry]

I just looked at pictures of the saw you bought..it looks like it'd be accurate.

My first radiaql arm was a Red Star brand and looked remarkably similar

[kurt]

I'm on a dialup & can't google effectively; does your pic show the green "splatter" finish?

This thing has 1/2 degree settings. When you touch the carriage, it glides like a sharp blade on ice; theres' a friction setting so one can set the amount of resistance & response. When you're adjusting this thing & it hits the presets, it clicks like a micrometer.

The blade I've got is a pretty good Freud carbide; near as I can tell, there is zero wobble; wood comes out the other side like it's been jointed.

[Jim Katen]

Is this the model you're talking about?

http://portland.craigslist.org/tls/176230860.html

I used to have one like it in one of my old shops in Vermont. It worked very well.

- Jim Katen, Oregon