JonJonJon wrote:
After having to saw through a 3/4" steel plate with a hacksaw I decided
it was time to look into purchasing a cheap chinese import bandsaw from
BusyBee Tools (same as Grizzly) and would like to purchase some
adequate blades for cutting aluminium and stainless steel (if it's much
different from cutting mild steel). Any recommendations on the number
of TPI I should be looking for? Blades are cheap so I'll probably grab
a couple.

10/14 bimetal seems to be a good universal choice.

I figure a bandsaw is probably a beter choice than a cut-off saw with a
grinding wheel, especially if I want to cut some aluminium even once in
a while. Unless someone has a better solution...

You will want both. A chop saw is much handier when you just need to
wack 2" off a length of iron pipe or angle iron.

I'm also wondering if acquiring this metal cutting bandsaw would let me
get rid of my wood cutting bandsaw which isn't seeing much action
anyways. Is it adviseable to cut wood on a metal cutting bandsaw or
will I end up gunking up the mechanism with saw dust? If it's do-able,
I wonder if I can fit a 1/4" blade on a metal cutting bandsaw to cut
tighter curves in wood...

I'd keep the wood saw. While you can cut wood with the 4x6, it's far
from ideal. The metal saw will end up with oil on it, which won't do the
wood much good. I'd say if you need to cut some blocks of super-hard
oak from a pallet, it might occasionally be good for that.

You will wonder how you ever got by without it.