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I likes tools and have plenty, but I could never justify the cost of this very limited use tool. I'll use a recip, oscillating, jig, or hacksaw instead.
it is hard to make a good straight cut with these things but to just hack some Unistrut or conduit apart they are ok. as ghostsniper said they are not a cheap tool.
Last summer, my wife and I installed 235' of 10'x4"x1/8" corten steel landscape edging. I knew I was going to have to both cut and also bend (into various angles) the edging. I was planning to purchase a grinding wheel tool for this one-time project, but then found out my neighbor had one of these Milwaukee band saws. He installs steel fencing at sports venues as well as prison yards(!) so had one of these they used when setting steel posts. I simply placed the edging into a B&D workmate table, made my cut measurements and achieved clean and accurate cuts every time. When making angled bends, I simply cut adjacent parallel cuts and was able to make the accurate bends with ease. Great tool and glad I didn't have to spend to buy one.
I did purchase a 3-pack of new blades for the tool as appreciation for him loaning me the tool before I returned it. I also thoroughly cleaned both the tool and the plastic storage box (always return loaned tools cleaner than you got them!)..
I agree that the deep cut version is well worth the price, as it allows cuts up to 5x5". Also meant to say that the "adjacent parallel cuts" I made for creating bends in the 1/8th" steel were shallow cuts (not all the way through). I had so much control when using this tool, I could place the cutting band parallel to the steel's surface and make those parallel cuts ~1/16" inch deep, so the steel could be bent with relative ease.
Pretty much standard equipment for most millwright crews and if you think the extra juice for the deep cut version isn't worth the squeeze, you're very wrong about that.
I likes tools and have plenty, but I could never justify the cost of this very limited use tool. I'll use a recip, oscillating, jig, or hacksaw instead.
ReplyDeleteit is hard to make a good straight cut with these things but to just hack some Unistrut or conduit apart they are ok. as ghostsniper said they are not a cheap tool.
ReplyDeleteLast summer, my wife and I installed 235' of 10'x4"x1/8" corten steel landscape edging. I knew I was going to have to both cut and also bend (into various angles) the edging. I was planning to purchase a grinding wheel tool for this one-time project, but then found out my neighbor had one of these Milwaukee band saws. He installs steel fencing at sports venues as well as prison yards(!) so had one of these they used when setting steel posts. I simply placed the edging into a B&D workmate table, made my cut measurements and achieved clean and accurate cuts every time. When making angled bends, I simply cut adjacent parallel cuts and was able to make the accurate bends with ease. Great tool and glad I didn't have to spend to buy one.
ReplyDeleteI did purchase a 3-pack of new blades for the tool as appreciation for him loaning me the tool before I returned it. I also thoroughly cleaned both the tool and the plastic storage box (always return loaned tools cleaner than you got them!)..
I agree that the deep cut version is well worth the price, as it allows cuts up to 5x5". Also meant to say that the "adjacent parallel cuts" I made for creating bends in the 1/8th" steel were shallow cuts (not all the way through). I had so much control when using this tool, I could place the cutting band parallel to the steel's surface and make those parallel cuts ~1/16" inch deep, so the steel could be bent with relative ease.
DeletePretty much standard equipment for most millwright crews and if you think the extra juice for the deep cut version isn't worth the squeeze, you're very wrong about that.
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