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.
Just my two cents worth!
Michael
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