On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:57:54 -0800, Grant Erwin
wrote:



Today I shot a few pictures and did my first test cuts. Cuts just great! I cut
off a beer truck axle, powered smoothly right through it. Truck axle is some
super tough steel, really really tough on bandsaw blades. The axle is a bit over
2" thick, the saw cut it in about 6-8 seconds. Sa-weet!

It's to late. You've already been infected. You'll never want to go
back to a ordinary chop saw now. :-)

I now have a total of about $180 invested in the saw, figure it would cost about
$1800+ to replace new, so in the end it was under 10¢ on the dollar, right in my
price range. Another way to look at it is it cost about the same as a new
Milwaukee 14" abrasive chop saw. Those have what, 1 horse motors? They are
absolute toys compared to a properly powered 16" saw. No kidding.

Yep. You did good on this one.

Yes, it's loud, yes it's smelly, yes it throws crap everywhere. But it's fast,
and cuts true, and that means money.


More power grunt grunt. :-)

Wayne Cook
Shamrock, TX
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/waynecook/index.htm