Rust INSIDE the table saw...

Don’t worry about it. Light rust on cast iron is a normal thing
and the oxidized rust coating protects the iron underneath.

What about the steel parts, like the pulley shaft and stuff? Should I just stop lookin’ in there? <grin>

Charlie,

You have a defective table saw and you should ship it to me immediately. LOL

-- "Of all the things I have lost in life, I miss my mind the most."

I’d stop looking if I were you. A little rust won’t hurt anything. That’s just iron, it does that. At least you don’t have termites eating your tools.

-- I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you. I'm sorry,thanks.

I bought a large Delta lathe from a school and only had my open truck. On the 45 minute ride home I ran through a light shower. When I got home I saw that the bed had already flash rusted. Polished right off with steel wool, but like Neil Young said, rust never sleeps.

I am a little different from the other suggestors, mostly because I’m paranoid.
I would clean up that rust with steele wool and coat the parts in Johnsons’s Paste Wax to prevent future rusting, but that’s just me. I’m not saying it’s necessary.

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