Radial Arm Saws

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I’m trying to build a lumber yard on my Ho scale layout.

I would like to have a radial arm saw as part of it but can not find one.

Does anyone know where one can be purchased.

Thanks

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Try here:

scroll down to item number 4095:

http://www.besttrains.com/products_4000.html

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Also I believe the Atlas lumber yard kit comes with one.

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[quote user=“papaturkey”]

I’m trying to build a lumber yard on my Ho scale layout.

I would like to have a radial arm saw as part of it but can not find one.

Does anyone know where one can be purchased.

Thanks

Hi

This may be what you are looking for, the problem is I don’t remember what the brand is. I bought it at my local hobby shop.

Good luck

Lee

http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/themes/trc/utility/[IMGhttp://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii34/Yankeeflyer/IMG_1282.jpg[/IMG]:550:0]

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That’s the Atlas kit. The RAS is on the bench under the on the side. I am using this kit since my son built it when he was about 8. I’ll add Cal’s Lumberyard by E L Moore and use this as a lumber rack in the back when done.

Just a side note, lumber yards used to have some pretty significant equipment compared to the BORG stores of today. The lumber yard where we got stuff as a kid had massive set up for cutting to length. There were two saw blades, each about 3 feet across on a single shaft. They could be set to any distance between them by the operator. There was a chain drive that fed lumber in. The operator just dropped lumber on the chain and let it feed through. Not a guard in sight. Now days they couldn’t run that saw and would never let a kid in the shed with it.

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Hey, cool. I didn’t even know they existed as a company! That takes care of a bunch of detail things I’ll be needing in the future.

Choo Choo