Cheap reciprocating saw

[Kram]

Recip saws & portable bandsaws also allow cutting when hotwork isn't allowed or desired.

I used it to open a propane cylinder, one of the few times it was useful.

 

[DAPPH]

Check with Swansea Screwfix for specials . Several years ago I got an end of line Hitachi Sabre saw plus a 4 inch corded angle grinder for £80 ... I also purchased a 9 inch angle grinder ... the manager bundled it for me .

I chose to buy extra longer blades for it at the same time too . Was able to lop off a seven inch thick oak boughs that were causing problems , used the same blade to cut five inch tree roots out & up into handle able sizes

 

[Memmeddu]

If you go for the recip saw , you'd most likely get better results using cutting oil.
PS oxy propane? Why not ?

 

[redlig]

if you cant get good access with a hand grinder you wont get good access via recip saw

Not true I.ve been able to reach into places that my angle grinder can't get near. I now await the inevitable " places " comments.

 

[redlig]

i ended up getting a loverly 4m 6mm angle iron tyre frame to cut up

recipe saw no good angle grinder better option

cut at the welds on the face until they sprung off and the top piece was just cut off

then reuse the lot on something else instead

Horses for courses.

 

[Pete.]

if you cant get good access with a hand grinder you wont get good access via recip saw

That ain't true I regularly cut out openings in steel beams and often have to use a recip to finish the cuts I started with a grinder.

 

[AVI_8]

Not true I.ve been able to reach into places that my angle grinder can't get near. I now await the inevitable " places " comments.

Exactly that, It’s another tool to have to get you out of trouble, the bolt and nut on a 1 series lower shock mount the other day was just spinning, couldn’t get in with the grinder, recip saw had it off in under a minute.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Not true I.ve been able to reach into places that my angle grinder can't get near. I now await the inevitable " places " comments.

I can't get an angle grinder between a joist and wall plate. Plus they tend to complain being pushed through wood. Every tool has its place. Nice gets used a few times a year but I wouldn't get rid of it

 

[James1979]

100% it’ll get where a grinder won’t. That’s from 1st hand experience also.

No one has asked (unless I missed it) what he wants it for! You can’t cut wood or laminate with a grinder I bought my mini sawzall to cut down some lorry bodies. 300mm needed to come out the length. The body is some hideous laminate that eats jigsaw and ripsaw blades. Milwaukee do an “eats anything” blade which wasn’t brilliant but was loads better than the alternative.

 

[DAPPH]

Memmeddu made an interesting point about using an oil .
I used aerosol threading and screw cutting oil on inch & 1 & 1/2" round bar as well as on 10 inch H section girder that I cut and shaped to make a pallet buster bottom end . Ordinary compressor oil I'd used on other sabre saw cut thick steel off cuts with hack saw blades wasn't a patch on the proper cutting oil . I also took note and now use it for almost all tapping and threading operations in steel & stainless steel .

These days all my blades tend to be Bosch universal professional ones .. expensive but they seem to last for ever .

 

[fizzy]

Memmeddu made an interesting point about using an oil .
I used aerosol threading and screw cutting oil on inch & 1 & 1/2" round bar as well as on 10 inch H section girder that I cut and shaped to make a pallet buster bottom end . Ordinary compressor oil I'd used on other sabre saw cut thick steel off cuts with hack saw blades wasn't a patch on the proper cutting oil . I also took note and now use it for almost all tapping and threading operations in steel & stainless steel .

These days all my blades tend to be Bosch universal professional ones .. expensive but they seem to last for ever .

Indeed so.
I use CT90 on saws etc.
When using my mag drill though I use soluble cutting fluid.

 

[Onoff]

Bought a Fakita from Banggood that my Makita batteries fit:

[£30.33 22% OFF]VIOLEWORKS 10mm Cordless Reciprocating Saw 3000rpm Saw Replacement Variable Speed For Makita 18V Battery Power Tools from Tools on banggood

https://ban.ggood.vip/11NiK

 

[jerrytug]

Parkside corded, which someone abandoned on site 10 yrs ago.
it has been uncared-for, abused and left outside but works like new.
It takes up lots of space, but sometimes it's the only thing that will get in there.

 

[Kram]

You can’t cut wood or laminate with a grinder

Yes you can. I once carved out a block of maple with a stone grinding disc, it stank. Cutting discs work too, Im not saying its a good idea but it will cut.
You can now get wood carving blades which are excellent and very fast cutting.

 

[Onoff]

You can now get wood carving blades

Not at all dangerous either...

 

[James1979]

Yes you can. I once carved out a block of maple with a stone grinding disc, it stank. Cutting discs work too, Im not saying its a good idea but it will cut.
You can now get wood carving blades which are excellent and very fast cutting.

I was waiting for that.

Those blades are lethal and yes you can get them but you couldn’t pay me to use them.

I know you can cut anything with anything but I’m assuming the OP was asking because he wants to buy the right tool not make do. I’ve cut lorry tyres off with a 9” grinder. They stink and the heat eats disks, but you can do it. Haven’t had to since the sawzall but I’m sure I’d be a hell of a lot nicer to do

 

[fizzy]

I was waiting for that.

Those blades are lethal and yes you can get them but you couldn’t pay me to use them.

I know you can cut anything with anything but I’m assuming the OP was asking because he wants to buy the right tool not make do. I’ve cut lorry tyres off with a 9” grinder. They stink and the heat eats disks, but you can do it. Haven’t had to since the sawzall but I’m sure I’d be a hell of a lot nicer to do

Yes angle grinders scare me at the best of times!

 

[Pete.]

You can now get wood carving blades which are excellent and very fast cutting.

You always could. I've got one for a monster black & decker 7" grinder that is so old it's got bakelite plastic on it.

 

[Memmeddu]

Yes angle grinders scare me at the best of times!

Every single power tool is dangerous even a dremel

 

[Kram]

I was waiting for that.

Those blades are lethal and yes you can get them but you couldn’t pay me to use them.

There are two distinct types. Three toothed blades, which are generally considered safe, and has UK brands manufacturing and supplying them, mine is a Saxton. They will still eat flesh if careless but they are not going to kick or be uncontrollable.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B086QZHWVF/

Many toothed, circular saw type blades. These are considered bad and supply was recently banned by HSE? There was a thread about it.