Just to be picky: The problem wasn't reduced torque, which actually
increases as the blade gets smaller, but reduced edge speed, which happens
as the blade gets smaller.
Mike
At 05:12 AM 7/10/97 +0000, Michael Leach wrote:
>Just want to say that I went to Home Depot last night and bought a pack of
>the metal cutting blades for the skill Saw. It is much cheaper to buy the
>10 pack ($12.xx) rather then buying one at a time ($2.77). Anyways when I
>got home to tryed them out and must say "these things are very impressive".
> I first started on a piece of 14-16ga. metal and cut right through it with
>no problem. Note, be sure to set the blade at the proper thickness for the
>metal being cut. The cut was nice, square and clean. I was feeling pretty
>impressed and figured that I would put it to the real test and cut a piece
>of 3" x 1-1/2" x 3/8 channel. Sure enough it cut right through it. It
>took about 1 min. with light-moderate pressure. As for the blade ware it
>made 16 cuts through the 3" x 1-1/2" x 3/8" channel and the one cut thought
>the 14-16ga plate steel about 12" long. The blade had worn about 1/2" and
>was starting to cut slower on the last 2-3 cuts. This is proable due to
>torque loss from dia of blade getting smaller. I figure that it is much
>cheaper to use the cutting wheels over a torch (i.e. if like me can't cut a
>straight clean line). And you don't have to hall around the bottles for
>refill's.
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>Just my two cents worth!
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>Michael
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