When I owned my first house, I was given an old Craftsman table saw that had been rusting in my grandmother's basement. It's a 1939 vintage, Atlas-made tilting-arbor saw and it was used by my grandfather to make a lot of furniture and cabinets. I cleaned and mostly restored the saw, and built a decent mobile base with drawers to set it on. I saved the old micro-adjustable fence and bolted on a Mule Accu-square fence that I picked up at a woodworking show. It has a fair amount of sentimental value to me and it is fully functional.
A few years went by and I found a deal on a NOS Delta Unisaw that I couldn't pass up. It came without a fence, so I took the Mule fence off the Craftsman and disassembled the old saw for storage. I still have the old fence, motor and all the parts.
Now I'm in the process of finishing up my new shop and I'd like to pull the old saw back out and use it again. No point in keeping it if it's going to be on a shelf forever. My dilemma is - I don't know what to do with this thing. What do you do with a spare table saw? Set it up for a dedicated operation? I can't honestly think of anything that I would only need the saw to do just one thing, even setting it up permanently with a box joint jig or something like that.
I'm sure there's a few of you guys that have more than one of a machine - what do you do with the extra one?