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Hi Duffer, At the community college welding shop where I work we have a couple of Milwaukee 14" chop saws. They are Milwaukee's 2nd best chop saws (2nd most expensive, anyway.) There's no denying they get a lot of hard use and more than a little abuse, but I don't think they hold up to it very well. It seems like I'm always running one of them over to the shop that does our repair work and picking up the other one to bring back. I've had the Milwaukee chop saw that is supposed to be their top of the line for several years now, but I haven't taken it out of the box yet. That's mostly because I have a $50 Harbor Freight 14" chop saw that won't quit working. To be fair about it, I don't use it hard enough to say whether it will hold up, but I've gotten my money's worth out of it several times over. I've also had a Hitachi chop saw for about thirty years which I've used almost entirely for carpentry. It's always been a little deficient in the accuracy department which makes it slow for finish carpentry, but it leaves nothing to be desired as a cutoff saw for general framing. It's a knockoff of a Makita, and I've never had any other luck than good with Makitas on jobsites where I've used them. I'd agree with the previous posters that you couldn't hardly go wrong with a Makita. All the best, Stan
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