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Default New Bandsaw - (NEW new)

"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
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On 2019-08-14, Bob La Londe wrote:

......
It will get
used most of the time to cut 6061 or 7075 aluminum from 1/2" thick
to 2
inch thick.


For that -- 6 TPI would do.


I started with 10/14 on my 4x6 bandsaw and slowly found I needed
pitches from 6 to 24. The 6/10 was the only blade that would cut off
6" square timbers, the 10/14 just clogged.