I agree with Wizer. I went and bought the T30 and it's a great bit of kit, just leaves me grinning whenever I use it. I looked at the one with the sliding table but it really seemed very low quality in comparison, more bells and whistles (well, a sliding table) but a lot less accurate, fiddely to set up and badly engineered.
I'm not against Record stuff but I wouldn't buy one of their table saws for some reason or other. I don't really think much of the Sip stuff I've seen though, all just seems a bit rubbish.
I think the guy at Lyndhurst is called Richard and sold me my saw for £650. They'd been selling for about that for a few weeks previously and as I was driving past Bristol in a van I thought it might be worth seeing if he'd do a deal. I think the week after that someone bagged one on Ebay for £540! He mentioned that after christmas he'd stop selling them on Ebay with no reserve but only as a buy it now. I haven't checked but this might be why you haven't seen one going cheap/ on auction.
I just had a look and there doesn't appear to be anything on Ebay at all. They're selling from the website at £795 though which still seems a bit of a steal - I don't work for them, honest! But I'd pay that for it. I liked the gold top version too as it has a different rise and fall mech. The whole thing goes up and down in a massively substantial cast iron dovetail, really nice, plus it's got a shiny gold top! But the extraction was out of the left hand side which wasn't right for my shop and I didn't really have any more cash to spend either.
Anyway, I won't keep on, but yes, I definitely can recommend the T30 and it's got to be worth dropping the guy an email. As Eric Idle once said "you gotta haggle" - I think it was him anyway, might have been Palin.
