[Shop-talk] dry cut metal saw

[John T. Blair]

At 07:00 PM 1/9/2008 -0600, john niolon wrote:

>I don't know if this qualifies as a "tip or trick" or more of a tool 
>recommendations.
>
>Back a few months ago a member of the Ford site I frequent  told me about a 
>dry cut metal saw blade that could replace an abrasive blade in a chop saw. 
>They can handle the chop saw speed. They are made by Bullet Industries.  The 
>14" model (chop saw size) is about 50 bucks.  I ordered and finally got to 
>install tonight.
>
>clamped in a piece of 2x2x<" angle iron and dropped the blade down.. It 
>almost fell thru the metal !!!....

John,

Thanks for sharing that.  I just finished putting put 5 new vinyl columns, 
stair rails & posts, and hand railing on my front porch.  What fun that 
was, having never done a job like that.  (If any one's interested in the
project email me privately, and I'll send you 9 page article I wrote about
the problems and tips.)  One of the things we had to do was cut the new 
columns to length.  They consisted of a aluminumn hollow square tube, 
surrounded with wood, then covered in vinyl.  

I don't own a chop saw, but have thought about buying one for years.  I
didn't use this project as an excuse because I thought the chop saw would
turn way too fast for the vinyl and metal.

Luckily a friend has a porta-band (portable, handheld band saw) that we
used to cut the columns.  For the vinyl railing and AL. reinforcements I
used a manual hack saw.

John

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