On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:05:27 -0700 (PDT), BusaC wrote:
Hi
I am looking to buy a Band saw or scroll saw to use cutting aluminium
and mild steel, sheet and tube.
Silverline do a 350 W band saw with a 14 tpi blade for ?85 but I cant
find any information about cutting metal. I don?t want to spend money
on something that will have blunt blades in 5 minute?s.
I want to replace hack sawing, drill and filling curves in steel sheet
that is to thick to cut with tin snips.
Any advice welcome
Chris
I've not done this seriously, myself (just the occasional bit of metal
cutting). One thing I would say is that cheap bandsaws come with cheap
blades. You'll do yourself a great favour chucking the blade it comes
with and forking out for a proper one for metalwork.
Bandsaw blades come in many different lengths, to fit the huge number
of different makes. There may be some milage in reversing the problem.
Find a supplier of reasonable price/quality blades, then look for a
bandsaw that takes those length blades.
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