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Lazy man's tool in my book .but that's only because I ain't got one
I can cut box steel just as accurately with a handheld grinder and thin disc as I can with a chopsaw...
Hacksaws? A roughing tool only imo. I'm too impatient to get a straight accurate cut with them.
Me too. I've got a chop saw and it's an awful noisy unacurate tool. Great for speed and crude cutting if you don't mind the noise dust and sparks but otherwise no thanks. The bandsaw is nice steady away I just let it go sometimes 3,4 sections at a time. The coolant system makes the bi metal blades last ages even with stainless the blade is very fine and the cut finish is spot on. I weld while she cuts. It's great.Decent (or at least well fettled ) bandsaw or 'real' powered hacksaw are both good accurate options, but if I only had the choice between chopsaw or handheld I'd probably go handheld at least 99% of the time.
I'm sure some are better than others but like pgd my chop saw is awful.Your a one off then if you can do that. I can't get near as accurate with an angle grinder as a chop saw and when I did my time I spent weeks on end doing little but grinding ( in those days you would just get sniggers and blue remarks to the word vibrations) I don't know how much cutting with grinders I have done but I suppose it's a lot
To cut well with a hacksaw is a sadly lacking skill today like file work. I can cut way tighter to tollances with a hacksaw than a grinder also and find it a lot more satisfying if slower it's cleaner without sparks and dust to boot
Me too. I've got a chop saw and it's an awful noisy unacurate tool. Great for speed and crude cutting if you don't mind the noise dust and sparks but otherwise no thanks. The bandsaw is nice steady away I just let it go sometimes 3,4 sections at a time. The coolant system makes the bi metal blades last ages even with stainless the blade is very fine and the cut finish is spot on. I weld while she cuts. It's great.
I think your right mate it's totally off square by over a mm when cut. Even if it was square I generally don't like them. Cold cut ones are better but they still make a row. I'm not in a production environment I do my private jobs and projects in my own time so the bandsaw can take all the time it needs so long as it comes off cut spot on to length needing minimal de burringSurprised by your comments there can only assume it's a bad example on the accuracy front. Dust n sparks I grant you ( bad for h+s bad for clean up time)
Not sure about a one off, but I've got a poor video of me sharpening a drill bit freehand with a 4.5" grinder
Now, I can use a file to stupidly tight tolerances too and I agree that's a dying art, but hacksaw? Nah, got a mind of their own those things
I think your right mate it's totally off square by over a mm when cut. Even if it was square I generally don't like them. Cold cut ones are better but they still make a row. I'm not in a production environment I do my private jobs and projects in my own time so the bandsaw can take all the time it needs so long as it comes off cut spot on to length needing minimal de burring
I keep it for if I need to chuck in the car (rarely if ever nowadays) if it's at home it's a bandsaw job. Mine is a scabby old white thing not sure of the brand. Been on with cutting some brush finish 304 box for a balcony railing last week and the bandsaw has cut all the 45's so perfect that when they meet the angle achieved is dead square. I'd not be without it now. Quality is everything to me. In fairness it was a real pita to fettle when I first built it. The blade was running off the wheels, the blade rollers were off set causing it to slope cut even the wheels needed spacing off as they sat at different heights off the bow back but after a day of fettle and a box full of scrap cuts its now sorted. Even the slow down pressure of the damper I added made a huge difference to the way it cut as too much pressure causes the teeth to dull quicker and then run off true.Don't go off the indications pressed in and if you need it bang on ignore the metal pressing clamp and use separate g clamps or similar
They are made light for transportation hence your issues of course there is some junk out there
Mine are Metabo
Good discs are also worth the extra - keep them dry and flat
Now try those skills on the chop saw?I keep it for if I need to chuck in the car (rarely if ever nowadays) if it's at home it's a bandsaw job. Mine is a scabby old white thing not sure of the brand. Been on with cutting some brush finish 304 box for a balcony railing last week and the bandsaw has cut all the 45's so perfect that when they meet the angle achieved is dead square. I'd not be without it now. Quality is everything to me. In fairness it was a real pita to fettle when I first built it. The blade was running off the wheels, the blade rollers were off set causing it to slope cut even the wheels needed spacing off as they sat at different heights off the bow back but after a day of fettle and a box full of scrap cuts its now sorted. Even the slow down pressure of the damper I added made a huge difference to the way it cut as too much pressure causes the teeth to dull quicker and then run off true.
Why? I don't like them and as said before mine isn't up to the job. Hens the reason I have a band saw.Now try those skills on the chop saw?
My point was the bandsaw wasn't much better if at all till you sorted it right?Why? I don't like them and as said before mine isn't up to the job. Hens the reason I have a band saw.
IDon't go off the indications pressed in and if you need it bang on ignore the metal pressing clamp and use separate g clamps or similar
They are made light for transportation hence your issues of course there is some junk out there
Mine are Metabo
Good discs are also worth the extra - keep them dry and flat
The discs are flat you won't put a bend in that layer flat yes flat as in horizontalI
By flat do you mean horizontal?
Have things changed?
When I did all my grinder/disc cutter courses many many years ago we were told that all discs had to be stored upright (vertical) and held in place so they couldn't slip onto an angle.