I am also interested to know more about the reason for a ZCI. I have small off cuts sucked inside the saw chassis or the scoring blade is throwing the small off cuts toward the main blade or downward and then to the wall behind the saw, but never thought it was an actual issue. The only issue I have encountered is when I want a really thin rip like 1/8 or less. This type of thin off cuts are just sucked inside the saw chassis. My workaround so far is to rip a piece long enough so that I can manually grab the off cut pass the blade guard if I am pulling the outrigger to make the cut. This way the off cut cannot be sucked in and I still get a descent length of off cuts not damaged by blade after I grab it.
Bill
