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Beaver Power Tools, Callander Foundry
Guelph, ON

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Table Saw
Machine Size:	8"
Submitted By:	Dan McCallum

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	3200
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Serial Number:	20651
Last Updated	1/28/2010 2:45:17 AM

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This was a sweet find. I saw it on Craigslist in Coquitlam for $25 at an estate sale. I couldn’t get out there for several days, but luckily it was still there when I finally did. It belonged to the father of the guy I bought it from. The dad had built a very nice stand for it complete with three drawers and a tray to catch the sawdust. It also had the biggest wheels I have seen on a powertool stand, must be 5” in diameter.

(Since the time I acquired it I see that these pop up pretty regularly on CL.)

It has a ½ HP Canadian General Electric motor on it, and the whole saw runs very sweetly. I cleaned up the tabletop roughly to get the worst of the (minor) rust out, put a new piece of oak on the miter gauge and cleaned up the oak faces on the fence.

I managed to crack the motor mount along the way, luckily a friend has a welder and was able to repair it for me.

The chrome on the guides was peeling and flaking very badly so I took them to a local plating shop and had them cleaned up. It was a bit pricey, but I figured worth it for this little gem. Unfortunately the plating shop laid the chrome on a bit too thick and the fence will no longer fit on the guides. So I had to pick up another set of rails. Luckily they were from fellow OWWMer Kris Wild who kindly threw in a fence that had an undamaged lever on it to replace my damaged one.

I eventually decided that I really didn't have a place for this in my shop, so I moved it along to my brother in law who took it under his wings, finished the clean up, put in new bearings and has it purring away in his shop.

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