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Circular saw advice (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Skyrmir@lemmy.world to c/tools@lemmy.world

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About to be in the market for a new circular saw, just looking for the typical 7.25 blade saw. One thing that has constantly bothered me though is the depth adjustment. Every saw I've ever had used a flip lever on a nut in the back, and that's always been the point of failure. They slip, break, seize or otherwise fail first before anything else on the saw. And it's literally the only setting on a saw that i ever touch beyond changing blades.

So what brand has a reliable depth adjustment?

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[–] Skyrmir@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Oh I can easily afford a table saw, I just don't have the space for one. Especially for a tool that I'll only rarely use. I ended up going with a Makita framing saw. It's maybe heavier than I needed, but it's easy to mount into a jig if I need to. So far I haven't needed any accurate rips I couldn't do freehand anyway, but the option is there if it comes up.