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Manufactured/Badged by:
Walker-Turner Co., Inc.
Jersey City, NJ; Plainfield, NJ

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Radial Arm Saw
Machine Size:	12
Submitted By:	Mike Schuch

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	RA1100
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Last Updated	1/27/2015 1:46:01 AM

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This Walker Turner 12" 3ph radial arm saw was on the local Craigslist for several months until I finally felt so sorry for it that I picked it up for $70 and did a rebuild. It is a very heavy machine and mine came with the super heavy cast iron base.

The arbor is 3/4". I use it mostly for metal cutting with an abrasive blade and use my 16" RedStar radial arm saw for woodworking. I guess you could bore out an 8" dado set from 5/8" to 3/4" if you wanted to cut dados on one of these saws.

When the arm is in the fully retracted position the arm sticks out from the back of the saw quite a ways so you can't really put the machine against the wall.

There is a geared head on the motor. The advantage of the geared head is that it moves the arbor to the bottom of the motor giving a deeper cut with a smaller blade than if the arbor was in the center of the motor like all other direct drive radial arm saws.

The carriage bearings are on eccentric bolts which allow you to adjust the arm parallel to the table. The first time I reassembled the saw I torqued down to hard on the top bearings and ruined a complete new set of carriage bearings which I then had to replace.

The miter and bevel stops are tapered pins in slots which provides for very accurate stops and easy returning to 90 after a miter/bevel without having to fine tune the 90 after every miter. In my book that makes this a very good radial arm saw. My old Dewalt had to be adjusted back to 90 after every bevel/miter cut which got to be a real drag really quick.

The bearing ways are machined into the sides of the arm. If you are checking out one of these saws I would check the bearing ways especially with the arm at the fully retracted position. The ways a most likely to be messed up in the fully retracted position due to transporting a saw without supporting the motor/arm. This is the worst place for the bearing ways to be messed up because the saw blade will immediately shift position at the start of a cutting stroke.

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