Excellent Stand

I bought this stand a couple of months ago for my Dewalt 744 saw and have been very satisfied with it, it is easy to use and so much better than the cheap stand that Dewalt shipped with the 744. If you have a need for a mobile stand I can heartily recommend it.

You Want This -- You REALLY, REALLY Want This!

The Bosch 4000 is the best of the "benchtop" (i.e., portable) table saws. With my table saw "living" in my storage shed and carried to my patio work area each time I need it, portability is a must. I got the Bosch 4000-07, the model with the red folding base, a couple of years ago. It worked fine, but each time I needed the saw I had to pick it up off the base and carry it across the lawn to the patio, set it down and make another trip for the base, and finally pick up the saw and put it back on the base. I never bolted the saw down to the base because the combination is both heavy and bulky, a package too unwieldy for me to haul across the lawn in one piece. And with uneven ground, a standard movable (castered) base wouldn't help.^M
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Then last year Bosch came out with this item, the "TS2000 Gravity-Rise Wheeled Table Saw Stand with Universal Mounting Slots". A big name, and even bigger performance. Even though this base cost more than my first "starter" table saw, I'm really happy with the purchase.^M
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The package as delivered was both big (42" high) and heavy (66 lbs.), so I was glad I had another wheeled cart (a hand truck) to move this to my back patio for assembly. When I opened it up I found the manual to be better than usual. The diagrams of the major pieces are pretty good (except the "lower cross bar" picture looks distorted), and the diagrams of the fasteners are EXCELLENT. They're done to scale so you can lay the parts on the page for a "no doubt about it" match. The fasteners come in two bags; the larger bag is used to assemble the base, and the smaller bag to mount the table saw on the base.^M
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Each assembly step includes a closeup showing where the fasteners go. With just a closeup each time, I found myself scratching my head a couple of times to locate which sections of the larger pieces were depicted. But I had no other problems with the instructions for assembling the base, and only one problem in mounting the table saw to it. (The mounting instructions say to insert and securely tighten the first bolt, then repeat for the other three holes. I tried it that way, but the other holes were out of alignment by a hair. Instead you should *loosely* tighten the bolts until all four are in, and only then secure them.) I only tried to mount my Bosch table saw, of course, but there are instructions included for Dewalt DW744, Craftsman 21830, Makita 2703, Hitachi C10RA2, and Ridgid TS2400LS table saws as well.^M
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The tools I used were:^M
- utility knife, to open the packaging^M
- rubber mallet, to persuade the upper & lower cross bars to snug together^M
- large Phillips screwdriver^M
- 17 mm, 13 mm, and 10 mm ratcheting wrenches^M
- 8" crescent wrench^M
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Total assembly time was just over 1-1/2 hours, including time spent looking for tools.^M
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In operation, the Gravity-Rise stand is just wonderful. The big pneumatic tires take the trip across my uneven lawn without any problems, even though the combination of saw and base is most of my weight. The superb balance -- upright for moving, lowered for operation, and in between -- is responsible for this ease of operation. I tighten down the Bench Dog featherboard and it's good to go. The standard Bosch miter gauge *almost* stays locked in its storage slots on the left side of the saw, and works OK if I watch it. The Bosch dust collector bag will stay attached while moving, but the end drags on the ground so I remove it while wheeling the saw about.^M
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Using my table saw with the new stand is both faster and easier on my back. As an added bonus, in the upright position the saw now has a smaller footprint in my storage shed than with the original red folding base.^M
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You *really*, *really* want this if you've got a benchtop saw that you move around.

Great

This is one great item, very impressed. Bought so much stuff from Amazon and this is my first review. I liked it so much I just had to take time to write one about it.