Reply by MontanaBob

The hold down was attached already, when I bought the saw (second hand). Never thought about taking it off learned to work with it, and I can see it would probably be easy to cut thin stock with it off…,,But thick stock, I would think the hold down would help. Will have to experiment, as soon as it warms up a little..

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