Mike Marlow wrote: ...
My point was intended more that after using it for metal-cutting extensively it wouldn't be much good for precision woodworking any longer...
The metal-cutting chop saw isn't Al and after the years of use it has, if it were built like the miter saw it might still suffice for a chop saw but it certainly wouldn't be an accurate miter saw...
But it gets farm repair use, not just the rare cut one light piece of metal that a strictly woodshop saw might get...but I don't think the miter saw would have held up even to some of the work the chop saw has done in its life...