Can you buy a mitre chop saw?

[Dvddvddvd]

I bought an Evolution chop saw the one with the 335mm blade. I cut a lot of angles and was wondering does anybody make a chop saw where the whole body rotates like a timber mitre saw? I'm limited for space and having the bolted down chop saw means having the pieces of metal stuck out into the workshop. Would be a lot easier to have the pieces laid on my workbench and rotating the actual saw blade and body

thanks

 

[hotponyshoes]

Evolution Rage does that.
Or for heavier stuff all the pazzoli (sp?) ones are. In fact I think most of the cold cut saws work that way

 

[MCKDAVID]

think @hotponyshoes means pedrazzoli... excellent bits of kit, had mine a few years now, got it off here... if you're struggling for space probably no use for you.. they're not small but they do the job perfectly, what I really like is the quick close on the vice and the end stop, so if you've a lot of identical cuts to do, you can fly through them, will cut all day.

this is just a photo off the net, too dark to take a photo of my one just now, will get one during the day. Ideal bit of kit, but must fix the coolant pump though, it crapped out, and had to bodge a hand held primer bulb onto the line for a quick job, unfortunately that was 6 months ago, should get on it to really... one day..

 

[hotponyshoes]

That's it, pedrazzoli.
I have got one for sale if wanted but it's 3 phase.

 

[Dvddvddvd]

Hi thanks bjt was thinking of something smaller.
I did see a youtube video of someone using a lazy Susan turntable where they fix it to the bottom of their chop saw so it swings round when cutting 45 degrees.

 

[AndersK]

think @hotponyshoes means pedrazzoli... excellent bits of kit

Indeed they are.
Done thousands of cuts in one in a previous life. Not by far as noisy as the Evolution, very accurate angles and no corn blue chips flying all over the place.

 

[MCKDAVID]

Indeed they are.
Done thousands of cuts in one in a previous life. Not by far as noisy as the Evolution, very accurate angles and no corn blue chips flying all over the place.

aye mine earns it's keep, bit cleaner than usual, emptied it last weekend to change and refill the coolant tank. You can see the primer bulb "mod" need to rebuild the proper pump, but it's not got that far up the list yet, the primer works fine

 

[AndersK]

Nothin beats some good tool-porn in the afternoon

We put an air cylinder, adjustable hydraulic damper and foot control for automatic feed on ours.

Just remembered another fun part regarding that.
Filled in for a person as purchaser for that company for some weeks. They had a strange system when it came to units. Ordered coolant, was supposed to be like 4 barrels. Supplier called when they received the order and wondered if I really wanted 4 full tankers

 

[500e]

Had a friend in the Saudi who was surprised when a Ship full of duplicate paper arrived it is a very big company (the paper that imprints on next sheet) not carbon paper.
No return they had a shed built for it.
I understand it was a locals mistake, so not a problem

 

[MCKDAVID]

Nothin beats some good tool-porn in the afternoon

We put an air cylinder, adjustable hydraulic damper and foot control for automatic feed on ours.

Just remembered another fun part regarding that.
Filled in for a person as purchaser for that company for some weeks. They had a strange system when it came to units. Ordered coolant, was supposed to be like 4 barrels. Supplier called when they received the order and wondered if I really wanted 4 full tankers

automatic loading, that would be nice, but can't see me ever having enough repeat work to justify adapting it to that extent. I did think about putting a foot pedal start / stop switch on it to a contactor, that would be handy but not got to that yet, but might be soon enough, as the 4 position switch (two speed fwd / reverse) is getting old and worn now. Sometimes you can hear it arcing heavily on swiching, and the motor wont' start, so you have to coerce it sometimes.. I get by with it for now, no doubt I'll leave it and deal with it when it doesn't work at all, as usual...

 

[Bravheart]

I bought an Evolution chop saw the one with the 335mm blade. I cut a lot of angles and was wondering does anybody make a chop saw where the whole body rotates like a timber mitre saw? I'm limited for space and having the bolted down chop saw means having the pieces of metal stuck out into the workshop. Would be a lot easier to have the pieces laid on my workbench and rotating the actual saw blade and body

thanks

As mentioned the evolution rage will do both compound and mitre cuts and with a swivelling base so it's the saw blade that pivots not the material to be cut.
Claims to cut aluminium, steel and wood all with the same blade. For lots of steel cutting your chop saw definately much better.

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Claims to cut aluminium, steel and wood

It does, but is incredibly noisy and the hot shrapnel when cutting metal goes everywhere.

 

[qwakers]

And it’s nowhere near accurate enough imho

 

[Dvddvddvd]

Thanks for your replies.

In the end I bodged an old chopsaw that I didnt use anymore.

I removed the motor and blade and inset the base into my worktop and then bolted on my Evolution 335mm chop saw.

So it unlocks and swivels round to 45 degrees. So it's still bolted down but to the old mitre saw base.

I've also used my aluminium track and cut stops to the right of it so I can cut multiple lengths one after another without using a tape measure..

 

[highseas]

That's it, pedrazzoli.
I have got one for sale if wanted but it's 3 phase.

Would you mind pm about that please?

 

[Tangledfeet]

I bought the Evolution S355CPS earlier in the year after sadly killing my beloved FEMI 784XL bandsaw; I'd dropped it a couple of years ago and broken both the main pivot arm and also the speed controller end of the motor - I welded the pivot arm and managed to bodge the motor back together. Alas it eventually let out the magic smoke and I needed something quickly and the Evolution came up on eBay, new, at a very good price.

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The body doesn't rotate but it is very, very accurate once you've set the vice at the correct angle. It is incredibly well made and reassuringly weighty. Very fast too, and does indeed cut perfectly cold.

I fully agree that it isn't tactful in use; noisy and it spits shrapnel everywhere (about half finding its way into the wee pull-out tray underneath. I only use it outside and then thoroughly sweep the area as I don't want the dogs getting it into the pads of their paws!

Its fine for the smaller stuff I make, may (when I'm feeling flush) replace it with another FEMI but at the moment it suits my needs. That offer running at the moment from Evolution, the 'Black Friday' one running at the moment, is bonkers good - if you were in the market for one now.

 

[smashweld]

what's different about the Pedrazzoli that it doesn't have the same issues with noise/spitting shrapnel? blade type/size/speed?

 

[MCKDAVID]

slow running and flood cooling are the biggest help. Obviously you still get shavings off the cut, but because they've been cooled they're "cold" so no sparks etc. hence "cold cut saw".

by the way, they are still noisy, but more a low rumbling than the high pitched screaming of an evolution or such..

 

[smashweld]

ahh sounds same as Clarke cold cut saw I used to have...same as this but was red https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-cpmcs1-portable-metal-cutting-circular/

I can't remember what the older version was like tbh but this later blue one... the whole blade/motor swings round for angles

was slow though and the pump gave up more than a few times