New chip saw

[beltbreaker]

After 25 years the Makita chop saw has died RIP Mak.
Whats the collective opinion on chop saws? Buy another new Makita as I have a couple of discs left or one of those slow rotating toothed saws. Not doing a lot but junior is doing bits and bobs of fabrication.

 

[TheTallGuy]

Big fan of Evolution saws - either the toothed or abrasive. Personally have a toothed one & it does a cracking job - you just need to watch out for the flying swarf.

 

[B R C]

Cold saw ie slow rotating here and quite a bit of fabrication. Just got 30 lengths of 50x50 box in to cut up and wouldn’t want to do that with abrasive or evolution saw. Cut is great very accurate and clean, 45 degrees either way and with a feed in roller bed makes it easy to cut up 7.5m lengths, with a stop easy to make repetitive cuts.

 

[Classichay]

Horizontal Bandsaw is the only solution, I’ve an evolution saw and the blades aren’t cheap once you eat the carbide off the teeth being rough or cutting wierd stock I e pto shaft tubes (don’t let me put them down as I use mine for aluminium stock and engineering nylon bars ) and cut many hundreds of length of 22mm 1.5mm tube, but solid stock is where they loose as they can’t dissipate the heat, may cost you 500.00 for a decent second hand unit on three phase. But you won’t look back as I quite happy walk away from mine cutting rsjs and don’t worry. The truck is learning tpi for material thickness ( less teeth for thicker materials 14tpi whereas thin 32tpi)