BT3000 Price

[sylbo]

I have a BT3000 for sale because I am buying a cabinet style saw (new Unisaw) for building furniture. My BT3000 is in excellent condition, and has retractable wheels, zero clearance insert, mitre hold-down clamp and a premium blade. I am in the Jacksonville, FL area. Can anyone help me with setting a price? Also, where is the best place to advertise it? I think I am only interested in local pickup.

I also have a complete Router/Jig Saw Attachment Kit and I have two (2) of the router/jig saw table inserts with 3/8 x 3/4 in. mitre tracks which fit the BT3000/3100 and the current Sears Craftsman 218298 table saws. Any help with pricing these would also be appreciated.

If anyone here is interested, please contact me.

[Black wallnut]

It might help if you could update your profile as to what city, state you live in, or country if not USA.

[JR]

A reasonably equiped BT3K might fetch up to about $200. Some have asked more and some have paid less.

The extra accessory tables could be sold separately, and might be worth about $30 each.

Your ad can be posted at this site in the Member Classifieds forum. There are a number FL members on this site. Craigslist is an excellent alternative for flushing out local buyers.

It's also worth pointing out that you could sell parts and probably make a little more cash. The fence, rails, motor, miter fence, etc. all have a market and will fetch something like $25-$50 each. Obviously this is more hassle, but I think you'd find a ready market on this site.

HTH,
JR

Mark, he did say he's in Jacksonville, FL in the body of the post.

[pelligrini]

I'm not too sure about the saw pricing, some of it depends if it is the 13A or 15A motor.

I see the accessory kits go for $35 a lot, BT accessory tables for $25 to $35. Yours are the 21829 tables, maybe $35 to $40 for those.

For local pickup, best place would probably be craigslist if it doesn't go here first. Check out the members classifieds section here for some recent pricing.

[dbhost]

My BT3100 with far more than that came to me for $200.00

My BT3000 came to me for $10.00

From the looks of it, that saw is in much better shape than my BT3000...

Pricing is going to depend on your local market, what motor is in it (13a or 15a). You do have what appears to be a nice saw there though. I have seen those go for as high as $250.00, but it can be a tough sell, especially if there are a lot of cast iron topped contractor saws available like the Emmerson built Craftsmans and Ridgids in the sub $300.00 range...

[Black wallnut]

In all honesty I think your saw as it sits might be worth $80.00 to $100.00. I say this based on the gauge on the Acc table and the damage to the SMT base. Those two flaws say your saw has been handled roughly. It really does not matter if these are the only two flaws in that folks that are willing to pay premium prices for these saws understand that they must be given care in their use. Now if everything else is flawless, and I donot see any cuts on the SMT fence you can likely part it out for far more $. The router mounting kits are worth about $8-10 each IMHO as the only useful part of them is the Ryobi T-nuts and the knobs and even then the T-nuts sold by T-nut.com are so superior that for the life of me I do not know why anyone would buy OEM Ryobi. The mounting plate is worthwhile but can be replaced with a shop made one of aluminum or even plywood. The casters on your saw look to be good stuff and may be a selling point. The CM acc. tables may fetch ya top dollar if you can find the right buyer. I think the miter slot's are of real limited use as a sled for routing can be shop made.

[dbhost]

I would actually have an interest in a 21829 miter slot type accessory table if for no other reason than to add a miter slot so I can use a feather board easier... But it is simple enough to route the slot in my wide table I built, and odds are better than good I am going to change that all up soon anyway. I am seriously thinking of losing the wide table, removing the extra rails & legs until needed for WIDE crosscuts...

I need the floor space.

[sylbo]

I would actually have an interest in a 21829 miter slot type accessory table if for no other reason than to add a miter slot so I can use a feather board easier... But it is simple enough to route the slot in my wide table I built, and odds are better than good I am going to change that all up soon anyway. I am seriously thinking of losing the wide table, removing the extra rails & legs until needed for WIDE crosscuts...

I need the floor space.

I use my mitre slot tables in a number of ways. First, as you mention, for feather boards (both sides), also for a cross cut sled, and of course as mitre slots with my Incra SE 1000 Mitre gauge and with my tennoning jig. I have 3/4" plywood spacers I attach to the table segments for proper spacing to the blade. I also have been using a sacrificial Hard Maple face on my fence with a T-track on it so I can attach feather boards and other jigs there also. I probably have done some overkill with my saw, but I build reproduction (mostly) period furniture, so the machined portions have to be as precision as the hand worked portions.

[pelligrini]

I have 3/4" plywood spacers I attach to the table segments for proper spacing to the blade.

Hmm, I never thought about shiming my accessory table parallel to my blade on my 21829. Might have to explore doing that.