Mike Young wrote:

I need to cut a lot of 16 ga., and so thought I would put the tablesaw
to work with a chopsaw blade. ...

The table saw will work fine, but you need a Tennyru style blade (C6
carbide). You can get a 7 1/4" Matshu****a for $35 from Medford Tool:
http://www.medfordtools.com/matsushi...elcutters.html

It will fly through 16 ga & the cut will be clean and straight. Yeah,
kinda noisy and the chips are VERY hot. I have a small dedicated TS
with one of these blades, just for steel.

Bob