Factory-Reconditioned Ryobi ZRTS1552DXL 12-inch Compound Miter Saw With Laser
Brand: Ryobi
- Electric Brake stops blade in seconds
- 9 positive stops at the most common miter cutting angles
- Sliding Fence
- Exactline laser alignment system accurately aligns cut line with blade
- Includes laser disc, carbide tipped blade, extension rails, stop block, work clamp, rear bracket, dust bag and elbow.mp
Super - A great tool, as good as new, and it performed better than I hoped. I would highly recomend this saw.
Good saw for the $$$ - So far we have used this saw for cutting window trim on one job and gutters on another job. The gutters were all mitered and it did a nice job. I had to remove and reinstall the blade guard because it would not work. It was installed wrong from the factory.
Works fine.... - I bought this saw and it works just fine. I don t use the laser, because I work outside in the sun and can t especially see it. Also, the laser only works if you keep your cut on the left of the stock. But, I cut both ways, depending on where the board is. I m not going to spin a 16 board around just to use the laser. I bring the blade down before I turn it on and see where it hits the board. It has an automatic brake on the motor, so when you turn it off, the blade comes to a stop quickly. Nice for keeping noise down. I have a friend who borrows my chop saw and he thinks I spent $600 on it!
A frustrating saw for even a casual carpenter - I agree with Mark and Fred. I can t get the blade square with the fence because the fence isn t adjustable enough.The bevel angles don t seem to be marked correctly (relative to each other, even), either - to get a true 45 degree bevel, I had to adjust the blade. Then, because of that adjustment, the saw couldn t cut straight up-and-down anymore, so I had to adjust the blade again.I m just a casual carpenter, but this saw has been rather frustrating. I don t have the tools necessary to modify the fence to make the saw more adjustable, so I have to live with crooked cuts or buy a new saw.Note: I bought this saw new from Home Depot, not factory reconditioned from Amazon.
If you don t need accuracy - I bought this saw when I started my handyman business in 2004. My first job was to install crown molding and I couldn t be carrying my radial arm saw around, so I spent the $200 for the Ryobi. I have had other tools from Ryobi and like them. I have a 3X21 belt sander that works great and a 4 cycle string trimmer that just keeps running even after the volunteers from my wife s community clean-up group gets through with it. This saw did okay on the crown molding but I was only cutting 45 s and using the back cut method and I did have to tweak the angle to get a true 45. I was recently trying to cut a wide but small picture frame and instead of just making multiple cuts and tweaking the angle like I ve done in the past, I decided to go ahead and align the thing. Well after a frustrating 2 hours and modifying the fence (as Fred did, another reviewer) I finally got the thing to cut perfect 45 s...Guess what...It doesn t cut 90 s anymore! Wish I could find some tools that are made in the USA. I would pay 3 to 4 times as much for a QUALITY tool!