[TheForge] Too much late night TV infomercial

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer artgawk at thegrid.net
Fri Jun 19 01:50:07 EDT 2009


Sure is a fat kerf and they must be expensive blades.
Lots of specialized extra parts to fail too.
Can see where it would have applications.
Mike...a battery powered metal cutting saw?
How long between charges? Was it wildly expensive?..pf

Paul wrote:
> CGRAF wrote:
>> https://www.dualsaw.com/?cid=647737#order
>>
>> This looked intriguing. Any comments on the tool?
>>
>> Mike Graf
> Seems like a whole lot of fuss about the counter rotating blades and the 
> elimination of kick-back...
> Seems more like twice as many blades to replace at once and a more 
> complex drive than a circular saw that does the same thing.
> I used a Panasonic metal cutting circular saw at work for 3+ years. With 
> the same battery. Never a problem with the saw. It was used every day to 
> cut copper pipe, plastic pipe, steel pipe (schd 40 mostly with a maximum 
> size of 4"... occasionally 6" schd 40), sheet metal, stove pipe, a piece 
> of 1/2" thick CR plate stock in an emergency, unistrut, threaded rod ( 
> you can screw a nut on without filing the rod end), plywood and 2X4's. 
> sorta versatile. Used about 6 blades a year.
> I loved that saw...
> but I retired anyway.
> Sure do miss that saw...
> 


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