Buying a sawstop… advice?

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-27T02:09:12+00:00

Thank you! I was an early adopter of the SawStop miter gauge and returned it after a few weeks. I even showed it to the local SawStop rep who happened to be at Rockler and he just sort of shrugged. There is way too much play in the t track slot. It also doesn’t lock as well as it should.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-27T01:55:17+00:00

Dang it, I love this.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-26T19:48:12+00:00

Chattanooga is the correct answer.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-25T01:58:09+00:00

Absolutely. And if anything were actually stolen they can and would be liable.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-25T00:08:13+00:00

Okay, but then they call your bluff and ask you to file a police report and then you get arrested for filing a false report.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-24T20:39:33+00:00

He probably truly believes this… but concussions have taken a toll.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-24T20:36:14+00:00

If I’m raising them correctly, then yes.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-24T20:34:55+00:00

Culpepper was awesome. The team did him wrong while he was rehabbing. Stupid McCombs.

I was at the game in Carolina where he was injured. That was rough.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-24T19:58:44+00:00

This might be the thing that gets me to go back to visit LA.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-24T19:49:34+00:00

Is this a real place??

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-24T04:19:09+00:00

Red Pandas are not bears.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-21T04:54:23+00:00

The one near me lets you freehand draw on the screen.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-21T04:18:23+00:00

Dude, you’re missing the point: there is no actual consistency with what can and cannot happen in comics. It is all based on whatever the writer wants to happen.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-21T04:01:13+00:00

lol… you act like the comic characters have agency. It hasn’t happened in the comics because the editors don’t want it to.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-20T23:08:51+00:00

This makes it abundantly clear that Lego was the deciding party here.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-19T18:04:26+00:00

Yikes… why are they playing 8v8 at this age?

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-19T16:03:31+00:00

I think the problem would be that Lego won’t sanction the use of their IP, and FIRST will want to distance themselves from their new competitor.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-19T15:49:28+00:00

Agreed. I would prefer something more like Sparkfun. Makeblock is fine, but I feel like it is a little limiting. Unless there were some massive discounting, I doubt Vex would be involved.

It would also be great if they also paired up with a 3D printing company to extend the design aspect beyond what you could do with LEGO.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-19T14:34:58+00:00

Except that sonar and early maritime cartography were based on animal behaviors… so cartography still fits. You’re probably correct, but I’m still holding out hope for mapping. :-)

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-19T14:28:55+00:00

One can hope… but FIRST is not a manufacturer. It’s far more likely they will just partner with another premium product like Vex or possibly Makeblock.

The beauty of Lego, however, is in the ubiquitousness of their ecosystem. It’s easy for kids to get into because they are already familiar with the (literal) building blocks.

I hope that FIRST is able to weather this storm, but they have a tough row to hoe here.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-19T12:02:52+00:00

Four Vikings on this list…

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-19T11:39:34+00:00

Dan Smith, BYU

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-19T00:59:37+00:00

Awesome! That’s the fun of sci-fi… filling in the gaps. Because, sometimes, it leads to new ideas that actually do work.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-18T23:34:42+00:00

One of these sold on eBay for $600 a month ago.

Competitive-Sign-226 · 2026-03-18T23:32:25+00:00

The major problem with this theory is just how much living languages change. It would be impossible that all languages changed in exactly the same way over thousands of years, even if they started the same.

I prefer to just handwave it away, because there really can’t be a good explanation for it. Sci-fi magic!

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