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Make a clamp like this for cutting short stuff:
I have been running dry for 20+ yrs. We had coolant on a saw at the old shop and the coolant will end up on the floor no-matter what you doo - unless you have a HUGE LONG drip pan.
I run slow and with cheap "carbon" blades. I spray with WD occassionally. Especially with alum, but it keeps the squeek down if you spray the blade occassionally. I have used some better quality blades in a production job cutting 4" 4140 - also dry. Blade lasted quite a while even on that.
Much of my cutting has been cutting full bundles of bars. All dry.
I would only run coolant in a production oriented job, and if time was money situation. (I don't stand next to the saw while it cuts, doo you?)
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