Carbide Blade Chop Saw

[SensibleNick]

A nice way to drive one would be a a 3ph motor on a 90degree worm-drive gearbox. Mounting the blade on the gearbox is relatively easy, but getting the whole assembly to remain straight and true while cutting is going to be the hard part.

Those blades don't forgive misalignment easily.

While the other replies of "check craigslist" etc don't answer your original question, They probably are the most useful if you aim to save time and money.

 

[Egon]

Have you considered a powered Hacksaw?

 

[Brad_Blazer]

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[gsganzer]

Have you considered a powered Hacksaw?

Egon,
That was exactly my next suggestion. I have a Milwaukee Portaband and it's been great. If I was doing a lot of cutting, I'd go the next step up and invest in a horizontal bandsaw.

 

[toy]

Have you considered a powered Hacksaw?

I used my power hacksaw yesterday to cut out two mirror brackets, it worked like a champ. The thing about this power hacksaw is that it was made by MF. CO. Millers falls Mass. USA. with a patent date Aug 8 1892 and another date jan 12 1893. It uses regular hacksaw blades that you can buy anywhere anyday of the week. The saw started out it's life I believe as an over head belt driven machine but was converted to have it's own motor. The rod that drives the saw is made of wood and I looked it up on the internet and it looked in the picture like that was the way it came. I also have a jet power hacksaw that uses a 14" blade that I am going to convert over to use a regular hacksaw blade if I can't find 14" blades for it. The jet saw was made in 1991 or thereabouts, you would think that the blades for it would be readily available but so far I haven't found any.

 

[toy]

gsganzer in my post I was talking about a real powered hacksaw and not a band saw type saw. You can start it out sawing and when it cuts through the metal it automatically cuts itself off. A lot of people might not like a saw like that but I enjoy using that old hacksaw, and if you have something else to do you can leave the hacksaw and do what ever else you need to do.

 

[oughtsix]

The brand new power hacksaw blades I have hanging in my shop are about 2" wide 1/8" thick and about 30" long. I don't have the saw they go to but I do have a bunch of brand new blades. When I was given the blades I was told the saw was a great cutter and did angles very well.

I still think that a Dry saw is a pretty easy build. The geared head saw seems like it would be more applicable to a cold saw that runs in the 50rpm range and uses HSS (High Speed Steel) circular blades constantly cooled by a stream of coolant.

I think you could easily build a belt driven drysaw. Using just about any split phase motor you can find for cheap. A couple pulleys, a couple pillow blocks and an arbor. Any one have an idea for an arbor to securely hold a 1" blade without having to have it custom turned and threaded?