Hello everyone.
I've using a mitre saw and non-ferrous cutting blade to cut some 1" 10 series 80/20 for almost a year and it's been working great. Thanks to excellent advice from this group!

Today I broke a tooth off of the saw blade. Just one. Is it still safe to cut with it ? Or is that "hole" going to grab the metal I'm cutting and raise hell ?

If you recommend replacing blade, what brand would you go with ? It's a 10" Ryobi mitre saw. Last year I bought a Diablo Non-Ferrous metal cutting blade at Home Depot that cost almost as much as the dang mitre saw itself.

Thanks !
JCD

Pogo wrote:
Hello everyone.
I've using a mitre saw and non-ferrous cutting blade to cut some 1" 10 series 80/20 for almost a year and it's been working great. Thanks to excellent advice from this group!

Today I broke a tooth off of the saw blade. Just one. Is it still safe to cut with it ? Or is that "hole" going to grab the metal I'm cutting and raise hell ?

If you recommend replacing blade, what brand would you go with ? It's a 10" Ryobi mitre saw. Last year I bought a Diablo Non-Ferrous metal cutting blade at Home Depot that cost almost as much as the dang mitre saw itself.

Thanks !
JCD

Some of the window lickers at work usually manage to take off ALL the
teeth on the cold saw. Same guys did the same trick on the bandsaw, too.
They can walk, talk, and lead a life. I should be so lucky as to have
something they do be dangerous enough to cause them pain!

Gentle even feed, and you can cut with just one tooth. Pound it into
the work, and it does not matter so much whether it has all its teeth,
it's gonna be messy.

Having had to use the blades left after the ministrations of the
"gifted" in our shop, I can attest that they can be used without too
much greif up to the point where about half the teeth are gone.

You can take consolation in that you have got a years use out of a
blade, and you could well be coming due anyway.

Any of the other teeth chipped up?
If the rest of the teeth are in decent shape, it should be fine.

Cheers
Trevor Jones
(wishing that aprentices could still be beaten when they deserve it!)

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:45:07 -0400, "Pogo"
wrote:

Hello everyone.
I've using a mitre saw and non-ferrous cutting blade to cut some 1" 10 series 80/20 for almost a year and it's been working great. Thanks to excellent advice from this group!

Today I broke a tooth off of the saw blade. Just one. Is it still safe to cut with it ? Or is that "hole" going to grab the metal I'm cutting and raise hell ?


The danger passed when that tooth whizzed past your ear. My
non-ferrous blade is also missing a tooth (not just the carbide, the
whole tooth) that came off when I was trimming a piece of Item
extrusion and the offcut was just the right length to jam between the
blade and chopsaw fence. As long as the blade isn't bent and you don't
think other teeth are damaged, I wouldn't worry.

--
Ned Simmons

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:45:07 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm,
"Pogo" quickly quoth:

Hello everyone.
I've using a mitre saw and non-ferrous cutting blade to cut some 1" 10 series 80/20 for almost a year and it's been working great. Thanks to excellent advice from this group!

Today I broke a tooth off of the saw blade. Just one. Is it still safe to cut with it ? Or is that "hole" going to grab the metal I'm cutting and raise hell ?

If you recommend replacing blade, what brand would you go with ? It's a 10" Ryobi mitre saw. Last year I bought a Diablo Non-Ferrous metal cutting blade at Home Depot that cost almost as much as the dang mitre saw itself.

Myself, I hate unbalanced things spinning at thousands of RPM. I'd
take the blade to a local saw sharpener and for about $10, he'd braze
another tooth on and sharpen it for me.

For aluminum, I'd put any old carbide-tipped blade on there and go for
it. But that's just me. I'd keep the metal dust out of the sawdust,
too.

- Metaphors Be With You -

On Jul 25, 7:56 am, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:45:07 -0400, with neither quill nor qualm,
"Pogo" quickly quoth:

Hello everyone.
I've using a mitre saw and non-ferrous cutting blade to cut some 1" 10 series 80/20 for almost a year and it's been working great. Thanks to excellent advice from this group!

Today I broke a tooth off of the saw blade. Just one. Is it still safe to cut with it ? Or is that "hole" going to grab the metal I'm cutting and raise hell ?

If you recommend replacing blade, what brand would you go with ? It's a 10" Ryobi mitre saw. Last year I bought a Diablo Non-Ferrous metal cutting blade at Home Depot that cost almost as much as the dang mitre saw itself.

Myself, I hate unbalanced things spinning at thousands of RPM. I'd
take the blade to a local saw sharpener and for about $10, he'd braze
another tooth on and sharpen it for me.

For aluminum, I'd put any old carbide-tipped blade on there and go for
it. But that's just me. I'd keep the metal dust out of the sawdust,
too.

- Metaphors Be With You -


Or grab the pliers and remove the opposite tooth...

There's the right way, the wrong way, then there's the redneck way.
Dave

"Trevor Jones" wrote in message news:8aApi.47216$Io4.21882@edtnps89...
Pogo wrote:
Hello everyone.
I've using a mitre saw and non-ferrous cutting blade to cut some 1" 10 series 80/20 for almost a year and it's been working great. Thanks to excellent advice from this group!

Today I broke a tooth off of the saw blade. Just one. Is it still safe to cut with it ? Or is that "hole" going to grab the metal I'm cutting and raise hell ?

If you recommend replacing blade, what brand would you go with ? It's a 10" Ryobi mitre saw. Last year I bought a Diablo Non-Ferrous metal cutting blade at Home Depot that cost almost as much as the dang mitre saw itself.

Thanks !
JCD

Some of the window lickers at work usually manage to take off ALL the
teeth on the cold saw. Same guys did the same trick on the bandsaw, too.
They can walk, talk, and lead a life. I should be so lucky as to have
something they do be dangerous enough to cause them pain!

Gentle even feed, and you can cut with just one tooth. Pound it into
the work, and it does not matter so much whether it has all its teeth,
it's gonna be messy.

Having had to use the blades left after the ministrations of the
"gifted" in our shop, I can attest that they can be used without too
much greif up to the point where about half the teeth are gone.

You can take consolation in that you have got a years use out of a
blade, and you could well be coming due anyway.

Any of the other teeth chipped up?
If the rest of the teeth are in decent shape, it should be fine.

Cheers
Trevor Jones
(wishing that aprentices could still be beaten when they deserve it!)

Thanks Trevor (and everyone else!).
I laughed my a** off when I read the last line of your post !

"Ned Simmons" wrote in message news
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:45:07 -0400, "Pogo"
wrote:

Hello everyone.
I've using a mitre saw and non-ferrous cutting blade to cut some 1" 10 series 80/20 for almost a year and it's been working great. Thanks to excellent advice from this group!

Today I broke a tooth off of the saw blade. Just one. Is it still safe to cut with it ? Or is that "hole" going to grab the metal I'm cutting and raise hell ?


The danger passed when that tooth whizzed past your ear. My
non-ferrous blade is also missing a tooth (not just the carbide, the
whole tooth) that came off when I was trimming a piece of Item
extrusion and the offcut was just the right length to jam between the
blade and chopsaw fence. As long as the blade isn't bent and you don't
think other teeth are damaged, I wouldn't worry.
Ned Simmons

Yeah I had that same thought about where that little missle must have gone. Years from now you might see me on one of those TV medical shows where the "man complained about headaches ever since July 23,2007. Discovered a saw tooth lodged behind his left ear for the last 10 years ...."

Chills ...

On Jul 24, 8:45 pm, "Pogo"
wrote:
Hello everyone.
I've using a mitre saw and non-ferrous cutting blade to cut some 1" 10 series 80/20 for almost a year and it's been working great. Thanks to excellent advice from this group!

Today I broke a tooth off of the saw blade. Just one. Is it still safe to cut with it ? Or is that "hole" going to grab the metal I'm cutting and raise hell ?

If you recommend replacing blade, what brand would you go with ? It's a 10" Ryobi mitre saw. Last year I bought a Diablo Non-Ferrous metal cutting blade at Home Depot that cost almost as much as the dang mitre saw itself.

Thanks !
JCD

You should be fine cutting with just one tooth missing. We cut
aluminum box extrusions and Bosch (like 80/20) extrusions all the time
with an 80 tooth carbide tipped blade on a 10" delta miter saw. With
the morons in our shop, usually the blades last about a year, at which
point they're missing about half of their teeth, and we throw them
away. The blades usually cost about $80-100

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"Pogo" wrote:

"Ned Simmons" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:45:07 -0400, "Pogo"
REMOVE @ REMOVE THIS AmazingRobotics.com wrote:

Hello everyone.
I've using a mitre saw and non-ferrous cutting blade to cut some 1" 10
series 80/20 for almost a year and it's been working great. Thanks to
excellent advice from this group!

Today I broke a tooth off of the saw blade. Just one. Is it still safe to
cut with it ? Or is that "hole" going to grab the metal I'm cutting and
raise hell ?


The danger passed when that tooth whizzed past your ear. My
non-ferrous blade is also missing a tooth (not just the carbide, the
whole tooth) that came off when I was trimming a piece of Item
extrusion and the offcut was just the right length to jam between the
blade and chopsaw fence. As long as the blade isn't bent and you don't
think other teeth are damaged, I wouldn't worry.
Ned Simmons

Yeah I had that same thought about where that little missle must have gone.
Years from now you might see me on one of those TV medical shows where the
"man complained about headaches ever since July 23,2007. Discovered a saw
tooth lodged behind his left ear for the last 10 years ..."

Chills ...

There was a story in the paper here just the other day. Fellow felt
something "protruding" out of his side. X-ray revealed a 6-inch knife
blade. He'd gotten in a fight during Mardi Gras; (five months ago)
although he noticed a cut, he thought nothing more of it at the time.

--
Jedd Haas - Artist - New Orleans, LA
http://www.gallerytungsten.com
http://www.epsno.com

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:45:07 -0400, "Pogo"
wrote:

Hello everyone.
I've using a mitre saw and non-ferrous cutting blade to cut some 1" 10 series 80/20 for almost a year and it's been working great. Thanks to excellent advice from this group!

Today I broke a tooth off of the saw blade. Just one. Is it still safe to cut with it ? Or is that "hole" going to grab the metal I'm cutting and raise hell ?

If you recommend replacing blade, what brand would you go with ? It's a 10" Ryobi mitre saw. Last year I bought a Diablo Non-Ferrous metal cutting blade at Home Depot that cost almost as much as the dang mitre saw itself.

Thanks !
JCD

Hey JCD,

Funny you should ask.... I was talking to a guy Tuesday, and he asked
if I ever noticed he had one "plastic" eye.

No, says I. How did that happen?

Carbide tip off a sawblade, says he. Didn't even feel it much when it
happened, but the eye is gone.

So, take that for what it is worth.

Brian Lawson,
Bothwell, Ontario.

"Brian Lawson" wrote in message ...
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:45:07 -0400, "Pogo"
wrote:

Hello everyone.
I've using a mitre saw and non-ferrous cutting blade to cut some 1" 10 series 80/20 for almost a year and it's been working great. Thanks to excellent advice from this group!

Today I broke a tooth off of the saw blade. Just one. Is it still safe to cut with it ? Or is that "hole" going to grab the metal I'm cutting and raise hell ?

If you recommend replacing blade, what brand would you go with ? It's a 10" Ryobi mitre saw. Last year I bought a Diablo Non-Ferrous metal cutting blade at Home Depot that cost almost as much as the dang mitre saw itself.

Thanks !
JCD

Hey JCD,

Funny you should ask.... I was talking to a guy Tuesday, and he asked
if I ever noticed he had one "plastic" eye.

No, says I. How did that happen?

Carbide tip off a sawblade, says he. Didn't even feel it much when it
happened, but the eye is gone.

So, take that for what it is worth.

Brian Lawson,
Bothwell, Ontario.

Point taken !
Yeow!