At 07:00 PM 1/9/2008 -0600, john niolon wrote:
>I don't know if this qualifies as a "tip or trick" or more of a tool
>recommendations.
>
>Back a few months ago a member of the Ford site I frequent told me about a
>dry cut metal saw blade that could replace an abrasive blade in a chop saw.
>They can handle the chop saw speed. They are made by Bullet Industries. The
>14" model (chop saw size) is about 50 bucks. I ordered and finally got to
>install tonight.
>
>clamped in a piece of 2x2x<" angle iron and dropped the blade down.. It
>almost fell thru the metal !!!....
John,
Thanks for sharing that. I just finished putting put 5 new vinyl columns,
stair rails & posts, and hand railing on my front porch. What fun that
was, having never done a job like that. (If any one's interested in the
project email me privately, and I'll send you 9 page article I wrote about
the problems and tips.) One of the things we had to do was cut the new
columns to length. They consisted of a aluminumn hollow square tube,
surrounded with wood, then covered in vinyl.
I don't own a chop saw, but have thought about buying one for years. I
didn't use this project as an excuse because I thought the chop saw would
turn way too fast for the vinyl and metal.
Luckily a friend has a porta-band (portable, handheld band saw) that we
used to cut the columns. For the vinyl railing and AL. reinforcements I
used a manual hack saw.
John
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