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Default Saw for chipboard floors etc.?

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:51:28 +0100, oh wrote:

Hi all,

does anyone know about any powertools like this one, that's capable of
cutting flooring chipboard?


A jigsaw. Take off the shoe and hold the machine so the blade is as close
to parallel to the floor as possible and cut carefully down into the wood.
Once you're through you can put the shoe back on and cut normally
provided there's nothing below (a bit hard to know without X-ray specs
in most cases though). You can cut right up to a wall (which you can't with
a circular saw) and even cut through floorboards halfway across a joist.

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