[TheForge] Any recommendations on cutoff saws? Brands, etc?

[Jerry Frost]

The blade has big carbide teeth and looks like a big 
skill saw blade. It's a Jet.

Frosty
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From: "Michael" <michael.a.porter at comcast.net>



> Frosty,
> Dry-cut is a term used for some kinds of diamond 
> blades and also for special
> reduced speed soft carbide tipped (boron added) 
> cut-off saws. By reduced
> speed, I mean that a fourteen inch blade diameter 
> would spin at about 1300
> RPM (ex. Porter Cable's 1410P 14" Dry Cut Saw). The 
> teeth also have a
> different geometry (no rake). They cut like a miracle 
> as long as you don't
> break the rules, but they are very unforgiving if you 
> do. The moose you use
> at work sounds very much like a Trennager 
> air-friction steel blade cut-off
> saw (is the tooth geometry like crooked fingers with 
> rounded ends?). Used
> one daily for months back in the early sixties. It 
> was a real monster.
> Mikey
>