bandsaw blade tpi?

[jenkinsph]

A little off topic here, but my bandsaw mostly has been gathering dust since I got a metal cutting carbide blade chop saw. Almost go's through metal like it's wood, cool, clean and burr free cuts. It does throw a lot of "shrapnel" and limited to about a 4x4 for structural material, but for bar's, flat's, round's, & small pipe & sq tubing, you'll never look back.

I thought about buying one of those metal cutting blades for my chop saw. I have been using a Makita abrasive saw with 14" blades but that is a cheap fence and inaccurate compared to my regular DeWalt saw with 12" blades. Will these blades work well on a standard wood cutting chop saw?

 

[HCJtractor]

I don't think a regular chop saw will perform well with metal cutting blades. I believe its too high RPM. Check out a company called "Steel Max" The make several saws and blades. I have one of their big "skil saws" It looks like a regular skil saw on steroids. I cut 1/2 plate easily and it cuts 2" angle iron like it was a 2 x4 piece of pine. No heat, no burrs. It works great.

 

[bcp]

Will these blades work well on a standard wood cutting chop saw?

Probably won't get along well with the common plastic blade guard.
Bruce

 

[RedNeckGeek]

redneckgeek.... what carbon content would you call normal structural steel? I know it as a 360

Typically less than 0.28% carbon. A36 is what most people use to refer to structural steel:

ASTM A36 Mild/Low Carbon Steel

 

[notme]

i was trying to type a 36 apparently I added a 0 to the end...

 

[Rustyiron]

I thought about buying one of those metal cutting blades for my chop saw. I have been using a Makita abrasive saw with 14" blades but that is a cheap fence and inaccurate compared to my regular DeWalt saw with 12" blades. Will these blades work well on a standard wood cutting chop saw?

I think the rpm's of the carbide metal cutting blade is different from both, an abrasive wheel chop saw and a wood mitre box/chop saw.

 

[yomax4]

Old Lenox training said no more than 2.5 teeth touching the work at the start of the cut. for what it's worth,

 

[dragoneggs]

I don't think a regular chop saw will perform well with metal cutting blades. I believe its too high RPM. Check out a company called "Steel Max" The make several saws and blades. I have one of their big "skil saws" It looks like a regular skil saw on steroids. I cut 1/2 plate easily and it cuts 2" angle iron like it was a 2 x4 piece of pine. No heat, no burrs. It works great.

I think the RPM of the metal cold cut saw needs to be about half of a typical chop saw. I looked into it soon after I bought an abrasive chop saw. In hindsight, I should have learned about the cold cut saw before I bought. :smiley_aafz: