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This is one bad ass saw.........

http://www.harborfreight.com/7-1-4-quarter-inch-metal-cutting-circular-saw-8897.html


The company I work for bought one today figuring if we get 2-3 jobs done with it we will have gotten our money's worth....

It cuts through 1/4" steel like butter......:woot: with absolutely NO SPARKS....
makes nice straight cuts,,,no slag to grind off,,, cuts 2 1/2 inches deep, so it will make a 1 pass cut on 1 3/4 roll bar tubing with no sweat...

for 80 bucks... you can't go wrong... speeds up fab work a lot....:bow:
 
I think i have to make a trip to HF:thinking:
 
I've been using one fairly heavy (for a home shop) since about 2002 or so. Built a truggy, built a bunch of truck parts for me and others, 3 big gates for the old house, the list of stuff is endless. No telling how much, and it's still going. Once you get a decent base under it (up to a good level to operate it standing beside it), a good motor (most won't last long), a good blade (I like Lynox Bi-Metal), build a decent vertical mode table, and clean out the tar like substance they put in the gear box, you have a good saw. :D The vise is also a bit sketchy, but it can be made to work, and with some fab, that can be addressed nicely too...

OOPS! :doah: I thought I followed the link and saw the typical band saw. But then further comments plus the price caused me to look again. Sorry, please disregard...
 
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No wai 80 buck saw does that.
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way.......

2 x 4 x 1/4" - cuts like butter...... no sparks...

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I-beam test cut....

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From the manual, it looks like it spins "backwards" from a normal circular saw, is that so?
If it does, that is a shame. I've got a Milwaukee saw that uses the same size blades, but is many times tougher than that one.

It would be nice to just buy one of those blades and put it on my saw.

I've got a big Milwaukee compound miter saw that I use for cutting aluminum angle and flats already, and it does a nice job with a carbide toothed blade. But it spins the wrong way also.

I figure that it one of the reasons that saw works so well. The blade never tries to hog into the steel.
With it constantly pushing back, it never bites off more than it can chew........
 
Fordum said:
From the manual, it looks like it spins "backwards" from a normal circular saw, is that so?
If it does, that is a shame. I've got a Milwaukee saw that uses the same size blades, but is many times tougher than that one.

It would be nice to just buy one of those blades and put it on my saw.

I've got a big Milwaukee compound miter saw that I use for cutting aluminum angle and flats already, and it does a nice job with a carbide toothed blade. But it spins the wrong way also.

I figure that it one of the reasons that saw works so well. The blade never tries to hog into the steel.
With it constantly pushing back, it never bites off more than it can chew........
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J I have used a ripping blade ( large teeth not very many of em) mounted backwards on a normal circular saw. It cuts good. Makes a scary noise and I only used it once or twice so I have no clue how long the blade would have lasted but I knew guys who had been cutting metal like that for years.
 
Yeah, when we were re-roofing the main roof at the hunting camp, we cut all the steel roofing with a circular saw with the blade mounted backwards.

Like you say, noisy.
But, that was sheet metal, not 1/4 inch steel. I got the impression that this saw actually sawed the steel with the blade teeth going into the metal point first.

If the blade is running backwards like you mentioned, then I don't see any reason not to use that blade in my saw.

Not going to try it until I find out for sure............
 
I'll look at it and let ya'll know..... it does spin a lot slower than a circular saw and it nibbles off little crumbs of metal rather than grindings like a carbide cut off wheel does....

give me a few minutes...
 
It turns just like a circular saw.....the teeth face the piece to be cut ( not the backside of the tooth ) and it strikes the steel from the bottom upward as it is cutting...


and it's not very noisy....:dunno:
 
WHY IS THERE NO HF WHERE I LIVE. :doah:


In the process of getting work to buy me one so I can build them a few gates to close off trails.
 
chevyfumes said:
Chopped the top off a few cars when we were kids doing that. Cheap summertime hoopty convertable.:haha:
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Lol, never did that but sure though about it.

However, we do use a cordless circular saw to cut holes in the wing of B767s every week:eek1: Some of the planes are so new they fly directly from Boeing to our hanger where we tear into them:D
 
For some reason the link does not work for me. Is it the metal circular saw that you are speaking of. It is on sale for 59.99.
 
How quick does it cut? Can you "feel" it cut and just push it along or does it kind of pull itself through?
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You can feel the cut as you push it.....
Cuts fairly quick,,,, just as if you were cutting 2x6 lumber..:D

well..... maybe not that quick..... but its a hell of alot faster than any cutoff wheel or bandsaw....

I'm sure blade life is directly proportional to how hard you push it...It cuts the metal into little crumbs and they do fill up the inside of the saw casing,,, there is a big yellow knob that removes the outer housing cover and lets you dump out the shavings....haven't had to stop working to dump it out so far ,,,just when putting it up for the day..
 
you have about a 24% chance of ANY electric tool from HF made by CE lasting more than a job and a 1/2.... we've smoked a dozen CE tool's at work that my cheap arse boss buys..
 
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