Circular Saw Ignorance

[Egon]

Thats what I use Mike but I keep an old blade on hand just for this purpose.

Egon

 

[gmason]

Tdog, I've got one of the Dewalt metal cutting chop saws that uses a carbide balde vs and abrasive wheel. The 14" saw blade had 70 teeth and they don't appear to be anything special. So, for sheet metal, I would try to get a 25-30 teeth carbide blade for the circular saw and try it. Yea the teeth will dull quicker, but on blade shoould be enough to rip all that you would need.
My saw doesn't hardly throw sparkes either.

gary

 

[Tdog]

Thanks guys.

I thought I'd get knowledgeabel replies here.

I'll definitely use the ear & eye protection. Think I'll try 1st using a blade backwards.

 

[gerard]

refer to hazmat's post. I've used the air nibblers and they work great on sheet metal. The power shears would also work well but I think they cost a little more. With the nibblers you can clamp a peice of angle iron to the sheet metal as a guide and get a perfectly straight cut. Circular saws are a little rougher to get an exact cut.

 

[Bird]

I've never "used" nibblers and power shears on a job, but I repaired a few pneumatic ones, then "test drove" them before sending them back to their owners/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif; pretty neat tools.

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

My local woodworking store recommended either a rather expensive metal blade or a plywood blade reversed. They did say that a carbide plywood blade was my best non-metal blade choice if I had a lot to do. Otherwise a regular plywood blade reversed ought to work fine for me. Good luck with your gazebo. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif