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John McCoy John McCoy is offline
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Martin Eastburn wrote in news:gfq5z.2921$A%
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John look at a tooth. Rip is full width and is all there.
A crosscut is angle cut to make and half of the metal is gone.

The shape and use of the tooth is completely different.


Martin, nobody in this thread has disputed that the shape
of rip teeth and crosscut teeth are different.

What you are insisting, which is wrong, and which everyone
has been trying to politely correct you, is that rip teeth
have no set. That is simply wrong. Rip teeth have set.
Hacksaw teeth have set. Pretty much every tooth on every
saw has set(*).

(* the exceptions are when the tooth is wider than the blade,
as is the case with most power saw blades; or things like
felling saws where the raker teeth are not set).

John