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Actually got to use it today for a classic rot application - replace bottom
couple of feet of brick molding at garage. Personally, I'd just replace the
entire length but it was for someone el$queeke.

It worked awesome. Nice clean straight cut in no time. The fact that it's
only single speed was not an issue this time. And as mentioned, the case
head get very warm very quick. Not sure I'd like to be using this for long
periods.

Can't wait till it craps out...so I can justify a Fein :-)

Suggestion, if you're not gonna get one of the better ones in the $150+
range, get one of these. A few uses will make you glad you spent the $35
(with HF coupon) or so.

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Red Green wrote:
Actually got to use it today for a classic rot application - replace
bottom couple of feet of brick molding at garage. Personally, I'd
just replace the entire length but it was for someone el$queeke.

It worked awesome. Nice clean straight cut in no time. The fact that
it's only single speed was not an issue this time. And as mentioned,
the case head get very warm very quick. Not sure I'd like to be using
this for long periods.

Can't wait till it craps out...so I can justify a Fein :-)

Suggestion, if you're not gonna get one of the better ones in the
$150+ range, get one of these. A few uses will make you glad you
spent the $35 (with HF coupon) or so.

Glad you like it.

I've really stressed mine - and you're right: the case does get warm. But
never hot. It gets up to the toasty level and stays there.

If you've got a rotary Dremel, you can "resharpen" your worn down blades.
Just cut as many 1/16" deep slots in the blade face as you can manage and
you're good to go.

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"HeyBub" wrote in
m:

Red Green wrote:
Actually got to use it today for a classic rot application - replace
bottom couple of feet of brick molding at garage. Personally, I'd
just replace the entire length but it was for someone el$queeke.

It worked awesome. Nice clean straight cut in no time. The fact that
it's only single speed was not an issue this time. And as mentioned,
the case head get very warm very quick. Not sure I'd like to be using
this for long periods.

Can't wait till it craps out...so I can justify a Fein :-)

Suggestion, if you're not gonna get one of the better ones in the
$150+ range, get one of these. A few uses will make you glad you
spent the $35 (with HF coupon) or so.

Glad you like it.

I've really stressed mine - and you're right: the case does get warm.
But never hot. It gets up to the toasty level and stays there.

If you've got a rotary Dremel, you can "resharpen" your worn down
blades. Just cut as many 1/16" deep slots in the blade face as you can
manage and you're good to go.




Well, it's HF. So I figure when the blade gets dull I can just manually
hammer on the back while running it. Kinda like a hammer drill...sorta
:-)

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On Jul 20, 9:12*pm, Red Green wrote:

snip

Can't wait till it craps out...so I can justify a Fein :-)

snip

Why bother? I've got 25+ hours on mine doing the scraper thing and it
still honks right along. When it quits (if it does) I'll probably buy
another one.
Used it on a 12' x 16' kitchen floor with linoleum, plywood, asphalt
felt, more linoleum, more asphalt felt and it was slow going but took
it down to the subfloor planks. Took off the final asphalt residue
with a Bosch power planer. The planer spit out a kind of fluff
consisting of asphalt and wood fiber that was easy to sweep up. There
have been posts in this NG moaning and groaning about asphalt, but
this old stuff came up pretty clean.

Joe

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Joe wrote in news:fbb0d9ca-20c7-47aa-8695-
:

On Jul 20, 9:12*pm, Red Green wrote:

snip

Can't wait till it craps out...so I can justify a Fein :-)

snip

Why bother? I've got 25+ hours on mine doing the scraper thing and it
still honks right along. When it quits (if it does) I'll probably buy
another one.
Used it on a 12' x 16' kitchen floor with linoleum, plywood, asphalt
felt, more linoleum, more asphalt felt and it was slow going but took
it down to the subfloor planks. Took off the final asphalt residue
with a Bosch power planer. The planer spit out a kind of fluff
consisting of asphalt and wood fiber that was easy to sweep up. There
have been posts in this NG moaning and groaning about asphalt, but
this old stuff came up pretty clean.

Joe


Blades Joe. The HF's are only for wood I think/assumed and the wood ones
are said to be junk. New set of HF econo blades only $6 but metal cutting
blade would be handy at times. Have had multiple occasions cutting toilet
bolts with recip saw. Sometimes it goes easy and sometimes just can't get
the saw in there right. I think there was a comment once about Dremel
blades fitting it?

There are no pins in the HF mount to mate with blade holes. Have seen
comments about the blade repeatedly coming loose.

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Red Green wrote:
Joe wrote in news:fbb0d9ca-20c7-47aa-8695-
:

On Jul 20, 9:12 pm, Red Green wrote:

snip

Can't wait till it craps out...so I can justify a Fein :-)

snip

Why bother? I've got 25+ hours on mine doing the scraper thing and it
still honks right along. When it quits (if it does) I'll probably buy
another one.
Used it on a 12' x 16' kitchen floor with linoleum, plywood, asphalt
felt, more linoleum, more asphalt felt and it was slow going but took
it down to the subfloor planks. Took off the final asphalt residue
with a Bosch power planer. The planer spit out a kind of fluff
consisting of asphalt and wood fiber that was easy to sweep up.
There have been posts in this NG moaning and groaning about asphalt,
but this old stuff came up pretty clean.

Joe


Blades Joe. The HF's are only for wood I think/assumed and the wood
ones are said to be junk. New set of HF econo blades only $6 but
metal cutting blade would be handy at times. Have had multiple
occasions cutting toilet bolts with recip saw. Sometimes it goes easy
and sometimes just can't get the saw in there right. I think there
was a comment once about Dremel blades fitting it?

The "wood-cutting" blade cuts metal. And bricks. And mortar. And grout. It
just dulls faster.

And yes, the Dremel blades fit the HF.


There are no pins in the HF mount to mate with blade holes. Have seen
comments about the blade repeatedly coming loose.

Easily overcome with a longer Allen wrench.

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"HeyBub" wrote in
m:

Red Green wrote:
Joe wrote in news:fbb0d9ca-20c7-47aa-8695-
:

On Jul 20, 9:12 pm, Red Green wrote:

snip

Can't wait till it craps out...so I can justify a Fein :-)

snip

Why bother? I've got 25+ hours on mine doing the scraper thing and
it still honks right along. When it quits (if it does) I'll probably
buy another one.
Used it on a 12' x 16' kitchen floor with linoleum, plywood, asphalt
felt, more linoleum, more asphalt felt and it was slow going but
took it down to the subfloor planks. Took off the final asphalt
residue with a Bosch power planer. The planer spit out a kind of
fluff consisting of asphalt and wood fiber that was easy to sweep
up. There have been posts in this NG moaning and groaning about
asphalt, but this old stuff came up pretty clean.

Joe


Blades Joe. The HF's are only for wood I think/assumed and the wood
ones are said to be junk. New set of HF econo blades only $6 but
metal cutting blade would be handy at times. Have had multiple
occasions cutting toilet bolts with recip saw. Sometimes it goes easy
and sometimes just can't get the saw in there right. I think there
was a comment once about Dremel blades fitting it?

The "wood-cutting" blade cuts metal. And bricks. And mortar. And
grout. It just dulls faster.

And yes, the Dremel blades fit the HF.


There are no pins in the HF mount to mate with blade holes. Have seen
comments about the blade repeatedly coming loose.

Easily overcome with a longer Allen wrench.




Thanks HeyBub.


How about allen wrench socket in 18V Ridgid hammer drill:-)

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"HeyBub" wrote in
m:

Red Green wrote:
Joe wrote in news:fbb0d9ca-20c7-47aa-8695-
:

On Jul 20, 9:12 pm, Red Green wrote:

snip

Can't wait till it craps out...so I can justify a Fein :-)

snip

Why bother? I've got 25+ hours on mine doing the scraper thing and
it still honks right along. When it quits (if it does) I'll probably
buy another one.
Used it on a 12' x 16' kitchen floor with linoleum, plywood, asphalt
felt, more linoleum, more asphalt felt and it was slow going but
took it down to the subfloor planks. Took off the final asphalt
residue with a Bosch power planer. The planer spit out a kind of
fluff consisting of asphalt and wood fiber that was easy to sweep
up. There have been posts in this NG moaning and groaning about
asphalt, but this old stuff came up pretty clean.

Joe


Blades Joe. The HF's are only for wood I think/assumed and the wood
ones are said to be junk. New set of HF econo blades only $6 but
metal cutting blade would be handy at times. Have had multiple
occasions cutting toilet bolts with recip saw. Sometimes it goes easy
and sometimes just can't get the saw in there right. I think there
was a comment once about Dremel blades fitting it?

The "wood-cutting" blade cuts metal. And bricks. And mortar. And
grout. It just dulls faster.

And yes, the Dremel blades fit the HF.

*******! Lowes only has the 3pks of the wood/metal blades for like 35$. Do
not have the single wood/metal blade. HD is available online only. WTF?

Yesterday wanted 5/4 lumber at Blue Borg. Don't stock. Ugh!



There are no pins in the HF mount to mate with blade holes. Have seen
comments about the blade repeatedly coming loose.

Easily overcome with a longer Allen wrench.

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Red Green wrote:

And yes, the Dremel blades fit the HF.

*******! Lowes only has the 3pks of the wood/metal blades for like
35$. Do not have the single wood/metal blade. HD is available online
only. WTF?


Hmm. You can get a single blade here, for $5.99 and they'll throw in two
scrapers for free.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=65979

Using your rotary Dremel, you can convert the two scrapers to cutting blades
my simply notching their business end. The result would be three blades for
six bucks.

Alternatively, for five dollars more than HD wants for three blades, you can
get an assortment of blades, some sandpaper, a spare Allen wrench, and the
tool itself.
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=65700

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On Jul 21, 6:45*am, "HeyBub" wrote:

snip

The "wood-cutting" blade cuts metal. And bricks. And mortar. And grout. It
just dulls faster.

snip

Try the HF $6 diamond blade. Slightly smaller diameter than the half
round, but (so far) seems to be reasonably durable. HF would be smart
to offer a serious metal cutting blade along the lines of the Bosch
jigsaw, and Milwaukee SawzAll blades.

Joe

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Joe wrote:
On Jul 21, 6:45 am, "HeyBub" wrote:

snip

The "wood-cutting" blade cuts metal. And bricks. And mortar. And
grout. It just dulls faster.

snip

Try the HF $6 diamond blade. Slightly smaller diameter than the half
round, but (so far) seems to be reasonably durable. HF would be smart
to offer a serious metal cutting blade along the lines of the Bosch
jigsaw, and Milwaukee SawzAll blades.


Got a link? Or are you referring to an ordinary wheel blade like is used on
an angle grinder?

I'm sure the latter would work...

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Red Green wrote:

Yesterday wanted 5/4 lumber at Blue Borg. Don't stock. Ugh!

That's what lumber yards are for.

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In article ,
"Bob F" wrote:

Red Green wrote:

Yesterday wanted 5/4 lumber at Blue Borg. Don't stock. Ugh!

That's what lumber yards are for.

Which, believe it or not, have disappeared completely from many smaller
cities.

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On Jul 22, 11:25*am, "HeyBub" wrote:

snip

Try the HF $6 diamond blade. Slightly smaller diameter than the half
round, but (so far) seems to be reasonably durable. HF would be smart
to offer a serious metal cutting blade along the lines of the Bosch
jigsaw, and Milwaukee SawzAll blades.

Got a link? Or are you referring to an ordinary wheel blade like is used on
an angle grinder?

snip

See HF 67264 $5.99. It is cataloged as for the multifunction tool and
does indeed fit just fine. HTH

Joe

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Joe wrote:

Got a link? Or are you referring to an ordinary wheel blade like is
used on an angle grinder?

snip

See HF 67264 $5.99. It is cataloged as for the multifunction tool and
does indeed fit just fine. HTH


67264 is not online or is a discontinued item...
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...7264&Submit=Go

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On Jul 22, 3:32*pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
Joe wrote:

Got a link? Or are you referring to an ordinary wheel blade like is
used on an angle grinder?

snip

See HF 67264 $5.99. It is cataloged as for the multifunction tool and
does indeed fit just fine. HTH

67264 is not online or is a discontinued item...http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...temnumber=+672...

You might want to try that again, I had no problem finding it.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=67264

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BobR wrote:
On Jul 22, 3:32 pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
Joe wrote:

Got a link? Or are you referring to an ordinary wheel blade like is
used on an angle grinder?

snip

See HF 67264 $5.99. It is cataloged as for the multifunction tool
and does indeed fit just fine. HTH

67264 is not online or is a discontinued
item...http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...temnumber=+672...

You might want to try that again, I had no problem finding it.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=67264

Okay, thanks. My search was coming up with an artificial fern, but I think I
can figure it out.

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Smitty Two wrote in news:prestwhich-
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In article ,
"Bob F" wrote:

Red Green wrote:

Yesterday wanted 5/4 lumber at Blue Borg. Don't stock. Ugh!

That's what lumber yards are for.

Which, believe it or not, have disappeared completely from many smaller
cities.

They're around here, several. Just a longer distance for me in a
direction I cannot kill multiple birds on a run.

I think HD may have it actually. Haven't gone by there because that's on
the other side of town. Waiting for a glass company, which is only down
the street from HD, to get in some balancers I ordered.

I recall going to a HD to get some 5/4 x 4 once. I'm expecting 3.5". The
**** is 3.25. Had to get 6" and rip. I actually snagged the dept guy and
asked what the deal was with the 3.25 width. Just says sometimes they
come in 3.25 and sometimes 3.5. Sounded like BS to me. Felt like saying
what if you bought 15" tires for your car but they were 14.5. I just let
it go. Just another case of the world putting the fu*s to the end
consumer.

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BobR wrote:
On Jul 22, 3:32 pm, "HeyBub" wrote:
Joe wrote:

Got a link? Or are you referring to an ordinary wheel blade like is
used on an angle grinder?

snip

See HF 67264 $5.99. It is cataloged as for the multifunction tool
and does indeed fit just fine. HTH

67264 is not online or is a discontinued
item...http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...temnumber=+672...

You might want to try that again, I had no problem finding it.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=67264

ditto.

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On Jul 22, 3:32*pm, "HeyBub" wrote:

snip

67264 is not online or is a discontinued item...http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...temnumber=+672...

Latest HF catalog shows item 65983. Obviously my error; don't know
whether it was an old catalog or misread. This number works, though.

Joe