JasonPAtkins
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- Joined
- Sep 30, 2010
- Location
- Guinea-Bissau, West Africa
I have the normal array of bandsaws plus a cold saw (coming). I have 150 parts to do, but I don't want a bandsawn edge and would prefer not to mill post sawing, because the length is ±1/16, so anything close on a chop saw will be close enough.
So I'm debating whether a non-ferrous 5500rpm carbide tipped blade will do just fine in my Ridgid 10" wood chop saw, or is sawing that much solid going to tax it's pretend 2.25hp?
If that's going to be too hard on the saw, my backup option is to put that blade on my (real, industrial) 5hp abrasive 14" chop saw. It doesn't spin any faster than the blade's max rpm and has a better clamping system than the miter saw anyway. Think that'd be a happier setup? I know wood saws are used on aluminum all the time, but I mostly see that on profile, where they're not sawing through a thick slab.
So I'm debating whether a non-ferrous 5500rpm carbide tipped blade will do just fine in my Ridgid 10" wood chop saw, or is sawing that much solid going to tax it's pretend 2.25hp?
If that's going to be too hard on the saw, my backup option is to put that blade on my (real, industrial) 5hp abrasive 14" chop saw. It doesn't spin any faster than the blade's max rpm and has a better clamping system than the miter saw anyway. Think that'd be a happier setup? I know wood saws are used on aluminum all the time, but I mostly see that on profile, where they're not sawing through a thick slab.