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Metal cutting saws- dry cut blade on abrasive saw?

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Leon K

10-26-2000 07:50:00




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I need some sort of steel cut off saw for misc fabrication around my shop. Purely hobby stuff, but I want a decent tool.

I am considering getting one of the junky Taiwanese abrasive saws ($61 + 22.50 shipping). I generally steer clear of Taiwanese tools, but my "cheap" bench grinder from Harbor Freight has worked perfectly for a couple decades now...

I see the new Porter Cable dry cut saw getting great reviews. I can't justify $450 for it- but here is my question. Why couldn't I get an abrasive saw now, and simply put the nice carbide dry cut blade on it at some point in the future? I.e. why do you need a special saw for the dry cut blade?

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T_Bone

10-28-2000 02:52:14




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 Re: metal cutting saws- dry cut blade on abrasive saw? in reply to Leon K, 10-26-2000 07:50:00  
Hi Leon, For $200 you can get a Milwaukee chop saw that will last forever. At Northern Tool. You won't regret it either!!!

T_Bone



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ltf in nc

10-26-2000 10:09:03




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 Re: metal cutting saws- dry cut blade on abrasive saw? in reply to Leon K, 10-26-2000 07:50:00  
My experience with metal cutting saws of this design limit me to considering them only for cutting tubing that needs to be square across the face and with minimal burrs. These blades are expensive and will not tolerate abuse. The feed control rate needs to be better than what can be done by hand also. One miss lick and $100 plus is gone. For home/shop/farm use stick with an abrasive cutoff or one of the newer portable band saws with the big throat and bi metal blades.

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big fred

10-26-2000 08:21:58




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 Re: metal cutting saws- dry cut blade on abrasive saw? in reply to Leon K, 10-26-2000 07:50:00  
For purely occasional use, I find that an abrasive blade in a garage-sale skilsaw works pretty well. Kinda slow, but definitely cost-effective for my purposes.



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Leon K

10-26-2000 08:02:15




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 Re: metal cutting saws- dry cut blade on abrasive saw? in reply to Leon K, 10-26-2000 07:50:00  
Actually- I think I see the answer to my question- the PC dry cut saw runs at 1300 rpm whereas the abrasive saws run 3600 rpm. I bet that is the reason you can't run the dry cut blade on the abrasive saw.



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