[PaulDoug]

That sounds like a plan. I'm wondering if that same method would work for a homemade table saw insert. One of the most difficult things I have found to do is get a table saw insert flush with the top of the table saw. And when I do, if I remove it, and later use it again, it seems it is on longer flush and I have to go through the process again. Same thing with the boughten inserts. Yes I clean the accumulated sawdust out of the hole.

 

[PaulDoug]

Howard, When I make the slot in the insert, I clamp a board across the top of the table and over the insert then raise the blade. My hands are no where neat that blade. My blade does not go down inside quite far enough to clear the insert either. so I put a 7" blade in first and bring it up then out the 10" on and go the rest of the way.

The thing I just found out about my saw the other day, I can't do a 45' cut with the blade fully up and an insert on. The place where the blade guard mounts hits the insert and raises it up. Can't remembering it being that way on my old contractor saw, but maybe it was.