^^ Thanks for that post. I've always wanted a tiny tablesaw. My ancient 10" Delta gets used often for other things, but extremely rarely for models. A 3/32" blade kerf eats up way too much balsa.
I made a sander kind of similar to that Ridgid, but it only has a spindle, and not a belt.
Those angle blocks look real handy for models. Truth be known, I didn't buy my 123 blocks for models, but rather for general shop use, and I found that they come in real handy for gluing model stuff. But the ability to clamp things to the angle blocks makes those more useful. I end up putting a 123 block on both sides of ribs, but I don't have enough blocks to do that, without it really slowing me down.
Another reason I created this post is that I am trying to keep an endangered and dying part of the hobby (kit building) alive. Coming back into it, I was sorely disappointed to see the lack of available kits anymore. If there was enough demand, the manufactures would bring stuff back, or create new stuff. Having built my SIG Cub, and almost finished with my SSE, I have yet to find another currently manufactured kit out there that I want to build. I'm not really into scale WWI biplanes, etc. (BUSA), and when I finish this SSE, SIG doesn't offer anything else that I want to build and fly. Unless I go to scratch building from plans, it appears that I am SOL on what to build and fly next. I love building kits.
edited: I am pretty sure that the next plane I build will be a Uravich OV-10 Bronco. Only short kits, plastics and plans are available for that, though - no complete kits. I don't mind that part of it, as I have scratch built (even one that I designed myself) in the past. I just do not like ARF's. At all.
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