re: Zero Clearance Insert for Dewalt Compound Miter Saw

That is one beefy ZCI... but sometimes I wonder what designers were smoking at the time.

Manufacturers should be crucified for the table inserts they supply in which you could just about loose a big log, however, I guess they have to cater for bevel cuts... however, when we users enthusiastically add our own ZCI, we usually forget bevel cuts... and destroy our work of art.

I've made a ZCIs for my Hitachi and Fe$tool mitre saws,

but fortunately they were just standard single thickness profiled.

Talking about lost logs and under the saw debris, I often wonder what the hell that Fe$tool boffin injected when he/she decided to put these ribs into their "turn table",

that you could practically drive a small bus into...  MDF and the laser came to the rescue,

I do admit that there is one helluva difference between the dust collection of the Hitachi and Kapex... for all you skeptics, it's the Kapex that wins that race by a very big nose.