In a dilemna

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WileyCoyote
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In a dilemna

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I just got a great buy on a hybrid table saw that I pick up on Saturday. Now I have to choose between keeping the 500 or the 510 because I don't have room for all three. I love the 510 and would love to keep it but the old greenie was given to me by my father-in-law who bought it new. The wife will say I have to keep the greenie. Would you swap the newer innards of the 510 headstock into the 500 and swap the tables or just sell the 510 as is? Since I won't need it as my primary table saw, do the larger tables of the 510 even matter?
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I would break one down and hide the pieces in the attic.
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+1

if you sell it, will you be able to replace it with one you all ready know so much about ? or this could be a good thing, in a few months tell the wife you sold the old one and now ya want/need a new one ?
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Hobbyman2 wrote:+1

if you sell it, will you be able to replace it with one you all ready know so much about ? or this could be a good thing, in a few months tell the wife you sold the old one and now ya want/need a new one ?
My wife knows Shopsmith and she does woodworking so that would never work here or ever needed. 4 Mk-V's and 5 10ER's. :eek:
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Consider making a shorty out of the greenie or the 510.
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