Hello again Rob, sorry to trouble you again but what do you make of the lever lock for the bevel angle? it looks like a plastic handle, is it all plastic including the locking part itself and do these parts look fairly robust?
Actually since writeing the above Ive been ferriting around on the net and looked up the Dewalt version and to my surprise I see that the Excel really is very similer, in fact the bevel adjustment/locking set up seemed common to all the site saws I glanced at.
The things I noticed were that the Dewalt uses metal gears for raiseing the blade height, whilst the Excel are plastic or perhaps nylon, the rack adjustment on the fence is not there on the Excel which is not an issue for me, but the really intresting thing was that when one Dewalt reviewer was pulling off a hose to the lower dust extraction port, the whole motor houseing could be seen wiggling about, no better than the Excell it seemed. I huess that at three or four times the price the Dewalt would be a better saw, but for my limited use I think I will buy the Excel.
Steve.