I still have that same saw , it has cut a LOT of wood for me . Thin kerf blades do well . I have it on a home made wood stand . I am a DIYer not a contractor .

Outfeed table idea sounds good. Oh, the little Skil will take a dado (up to 1/2”) which 8.5” saws don’t always do. Or didn’t.

After reading look’s post above, I now want a Rousseau stand . . .

An out feed table makes a saw safer in that you don't have to think about your stock tipping off the table after your cut and you can concentrate on more important things. And in my mind a splitter is an essential safety device on a table saw too. Every now and then a board with twisted grain wants to close up after it passes through the blade which can cause kick back. It's the back side of the blade that causes disaster. The teeth are pointed up just waiting to hurl a piece of wood at you at incredible velocity

I'd love a rousseau table with an outfeed; a lot of money but very well made. There's a reason you rarely see them used - they get snapped up fast.

Me three. I have the 10" one that was superseded with an 8-1/4. I run 8-1/4 or 7-1/4 blades in it instead of the 10". I have it in a GM parts crate that substitutes for a stand and dust collection box when set up. It just happened to fit perfectly. Stows in the truck with all the accessories in one box. On a 4-wheel dolly it's at a decent height and rolls from room to room. There's a hole drilled in the lower side if I want to use a vac.

The thing about the Makita is that it is screaming loud!! Louder than my planer. I'd never buy that again but like Greg, I used it since the mid 80's. It's buried now and I have seen it in 2 years. I see it's worth about 50 bucks IF you can get someone to buy it.

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Yeah. They seem to sell used for 70% of new price!

I don’t know for sure if this model Skil fits in the Rousseau, but my chances of running across a cheap used Rousseau are so low that it hardly matters.

What am I going to use the little Skil for?

Some simple bookcases need to be built for the “bookstore” part of the cafe, in specific non-standard sizes to fit various nooks and crannies. Will be the simplest possible construction. 1/2” oak plywood, dadoed and glued together, with cherry face frames attached with glue and pins. Barely a step above the wonky used bookcase you scavenged off the curb as a young person. But when’s the last time the quality of the bookshelf influenced your book-buying decision?

A coffee bar needs to be pieced together from the 2x4s I salvaged and denailed from the removed walls, shaped to fit all the stuff that needs to be crammed in there - food display case, ice machine, undercounter refrigeration, plumbing, power, grease interceptor - and covered with something easy and boho-funky - sheets of zinc maybe. Since I fully expect to find that version 1 doesn’t work and needs revision and replacement with version 2 and 3, I’m not paying my furniture maker to build a work of art here.

The kitchen walls will taken down to studs then covered with plywood and either stainless, FRP, or tile, that plywood will need to be cut to size.

The porch will need some wood-hackery.

And so on.

If I ever build a real shop I'll buy a bigger saw, but I used this 10" jobsite Dewalt for several years to build a surprising number of successful projects. The outfeed table (repurposed from an old entertainment center) was a game changer. I wound up running it indoors w/dust collection and the size and scope of the projects I was doing took off from there. I never would have tried to rip a full sheet of plywood with it, but I definitely pushed the limits of what it could do. It never failed me.

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I know you already bought a saw. Definitely look at a good push stick, push block, a thin rip jig, featherboard, zero clearance throat plate inserts and a good miter gauge next. if you need any of this stuff to get going send me a note and I'll send you what I have here to get started. Learn how to build the sleds and jigs you need from the woodworking community on youtube. From there get a couple of good blades for the different cuts you need to make. I never used a DADO stack because my saw wouldn't take one safely, but I would have if I had a different saw. You may have more $$$ in blades and accessories than the saw, but you will be able to tackle almost any project with it.