On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 21:13:54 -0500, Martin Eastburn
wrote:

I agree on the hacksaw blade.

And if you have a metal bandsaw - get fluid on it to clean the chips.
Cool the tips and it keeps on cutting. I use a Hydrolic oil container
and put it on a sump with fluid.

I did eventually buy a portable metalcutting bandsaw, a Harbor
Freight portable. Noisy little bastids, but they work well.
Bimetallic blades were the first (and yet, only) upgrade. I use
cutting oil, for tough cuts of unknown metals, or Marvel Mystery Oil
with it.

Has anyone developed a type of leakproof fluid container for use with
portables, or is squirting the only solution? My buddy Glenn uses
oil-soaked felt wiper strips on the blade of his 4x6.

A hinged mount and counterbalance will someday turn it into a fixed
machine, but I'm too busy yet in my retirement to fab that up. This
week, I'm painting my house. My masking machine fell off the top of
the ladder and I had to repair it, too. I'm drilling new mount holes
in the ripper extension today, to hold the blade firmly, but I got the
new paper roll pivot built yesterday. Had to hack out washers to fit
the bloody offset hole in the resin on the back. I may redo that by
drilling out a pair, as it wants to wander a bit now.

The longer I'm retired (first check hit my bank last Wednesday), the
more I understand the gripes I've heard in the past which didn't make
sense at the time. "Now that I'm retired, I don't have -time- to do
that."

--
Some people confuse change with progress.
--Abraham Lincoln