Sure enough, this one was broken in exactly the same way, and Noe refused delivery on the item—much to the consternation of the FedEx guy, who didn’t relish having to carry the 50-pound box back to his truck. That confirms my suspicion that the packaging was insufficient to protect the tool during shipping. Not what anybody would expect from Milwaukee Tools.

The chop saw arrived on time as promised, but I didn’t get around to taking it out of the box until yesterday, whereupon I found “a little” damage had occurred in shipping: the main arm of the shop saw had completely sheared though. Most impressive since the box it came in showed relatively little sign of damage.

Luckily Amazon’s return/exchange process is about as easy and painless as they get, but this setback does further delay my reassembling my Spec Miata’s engine for the next race…