[TheForge] Evolution Rage

[Jerry Frost]

I'm afraid I've lost faith in anything Sears sells. The 
short story being; they wouldn't honor the guarantee on 
a couple power tools, neither one needing more than 
$5.00 in parts and half an hour's work. I got them back 
vac packed with a note that they were beyond salvage 
and needed replacement. One bench grinder they 
installed a goose neck lamp on and charged for it but 
recommended replacement as unsalvageable!

Anyway, I have a Jet 7" x 12" horizontal vertical band 
saw. Under $1k (just) blades run from $12-40+ depending 
on what you want. It cuts straight, is reasonably quiet 
and it's the only power tool I'll turn on, set to work 
and walk away from to do something else. The worst that 
can happen if something goes wrong is a broken blade. 
Well, maybe if you run your fingers into the blade but 
even then it won't do the damage something like a skill 
saw will.

I have a hot saw (composition blade chop saw) but I 
don't use it on anything but really thin tubing and 
even then I'm more likely to set the feed to barely 
moving and use the band saw.

It's one of the most used tools in my shop.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.