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Same as everyone else said the problem with the cheap ones is its hard to set the blade up true to 90 or 45 deg some of the cheap ones do not even have adjusters on them the fence usually only locks on one side and when sawing bends out of true on the far end of the fence while you are pushing the work through the top is not accurately milled or worse is pressed steel. I started with a cheap £130 Draper saw and it was only any use at doing small stuff and only then because I made a saw sled for it I ended up paying £500 + for a DeWalt site saw and trolley and although it cost me a lot it was worth every penny for the loss of aggravation and the gain of accuracy. The old adage comes to mind buy cheap buy twice.

[QUOTE="bigbob, post: 210922, member: 699"] Same as everyone else said the problem with the cheap ones is its hard to set the blade up true to 90 or 45 deg some of the cheap ones do not even have adjusters on them the fence usually only locks on one side and when sawing bends out of true on the far end of the fence while you are pushing the work through the top is not accurately milled or worse is pressed steel. I started with a cheap £130 Draper saw and it was only any use at doing small stuff and only then because I made a saw sled for it I ended up paying £500 + for a DeWalt site saw and trolley and although it cost me a lot it was worth every penny for the loss of aggravation and the gain of accuracy. The old adage comes to mind buy cheap buy twice. [/QUOTE]

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