Curious About What Circ. Saw You Use And Why

Originally Posted by cdac

Just about every industry under the sun has an element of innovation to "one up" their competition to somehow gain "market share", right??? So why am I writing about this and what does it have to do with circ. saws??
I have always been a loyal fan of milwaukee tools, primaryreasoning is that I have yet to see a circular saw with graduated bevel scale in 1 deg. increments. plain and simple. From that simple logic and feature in a tool, I have stuck with milwaukee over the years and I pretty much am reluctant to try anything else. I have the tiltlock sawin both right and left hand models as well as the 18v and 28v trim saw, all have bevel scales graduated in 1 deg increments from 0-50 deg. both tiltlocks are in need of replacing and unless I see a circular saw with that simple feature, I will not even give another saw a chance... thoughts???

Originally Posted by RobertCDF

I have the bosch worm drive (not the direct connect it came out 2 months after I bought mine) and I have the ridgid worm drive that has the bevel scale in 1 degree increments. However the table on the ridgid is a lttle weak it fell off the sawhorse 2 or 3 days after I had it and bent the table up a little bit in the corner does not affect it at all. But still a little weaker than I had hoped to see. When I buy another it will most likely be another bosch. As far as the one story drop, my brothers was dropped by an idiot laborer down to the basement and it messed it up real good. I spent about 2 hours taking it apart and reworking it. Its not to bad now, about 2 degrees off on the bevel. No saw is worth buying if it does not come with a hook or one can not be put on.