Reply by Cato

I work with a lot of machinery at work and though I have an appreciation of the older solid as a tank machines, like the old Oliver saws, I like the features now found standard on newer equipment and the newer saws.

I looked on CL at first for a bit when I thought about getting a new tablesaw, but realized like in car shopping I wanted a brand new saw for me and my shop that came with all the things I wanted like blade shroud dust collection, riving knife, and it needed to be of solid construction as well.

Since you now have the saw and are already investing in the improvements that new ones have you might as well fix it up the way you would have wanted a new one. If it indeed runs and cuts well it should continue to do so for years to come. Hopefully you’ll still be ahead of what a new saw would have cost you.