Also, use a little WD40 on the blade. If you're going to buy a blade,
get one of the non-ferrous ones.

Wear safety glassess

FS


On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:11:53 GMT, machineman
wrote:

It works quite well. Keep the blade up just over the top of the flat
bar. Don't use a fence on the free end or it could cock and go flying
off at high speed. If possible clamp the bar in a jig and feed into the
saw. A mitre saw I find works better, usually with a non-ferrous blade
if you are going to be doing a lot of it, but for a couple of cuts a
regular carbide blade works fine (a fine pitch blade preferred) If you
do have a mitre saw, stop the blade at the bottom of the cut before
letting the blade come back up, the loose part can get grabbed by the
blade on the way back up and get flung across the room :-) good luck

AndreL wrote:
Hi to all,

Someone at the metalshop where i was buying a few aluminum flat bar tell
me that aluminum (series 6000) could easily be cut using a table saw if
the blade is made of carbide teeth.

Does someone has the experience of doing this and what about the results
and safety of it ?