Chop! Chop!

[Weatherlawyer]

Which way does the bolt unwind on a Boschmann chop saw? I can't seem to budge it in either direction. The thing cuts anticlockwise and the arrow points thataway so I presume the thread is a standard direction and I need to unwind it in a clockwise motion.

Also the spindle stop that you push in to arrest the blade while unwinding it, can't be held in place so I have jury rigged a spanner across it and wrapped a tie around it. That can't be the design can it? What moron came up with that brilliant idea?

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

I would imagine it would turn anti clockwise ie the opposite to the roatation of the blade?

These saw blades are put on with a drill type tool and you will have to crack the tension,probably with a *impact driver*

[Weatherlawyer]

It's always nice to meet someone who knows less than me. However in your case I will make that an exception as I have just sheared the bolt.

So that's =A330 quid down the sawannee if I can find someone to tap it out. And another =A320 or =A330 for the new blade.

Good here innit?

I must say I am sigularly unimpressed with the quality of steel use dint eh manufacture of the bolt. I would have thought it could take a little more stress than I gave it with the odd angle and poor purchase I had on it.

And to think if I had been born of monkeys I could have made it to President!

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Hey! listen jerk,don't go blaming me for your inconceivable hamfistedness in not knowing how much force to hit the head of the impact driver(if you did do it that way?)on a certain sized nut/screw.

It worked for me on a Taiwan effort chop saw which was proving a bugger to shift the nut.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Generally - and luckily - the opposite direction to the rotation of the blade. Which means you can allow the teeth of the blade to bite into scrap to hold it still.

[mrcheerful]

it is usually easy to tell. just imagine that if the saw turned as it usually does, but there was a spanner on the nut, then the nut would get tighter, therefore the average saw has a standard type thread, so undo it by turning anti clockwise.

[nthng2snet]

Who buys a Boschmann chop saw?

[Weatherlawyer]

Don't top post.

You have been warned!

I saw a chop saw in Aldi for about =A365 -with a draw arm on it too but it was 240v.

I went to B&Q and found a new blade for mine is going to cost me =A345. This bloody 110volt nonsense is a bloody con.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

He didn't.

[Weatherlawyer]

I never said he did. The self righteous bs got up my nose and I didn't have time to be clever.

[Paul Herber]

Assuming that you are the only Weatherlawyer (not sure about this as sometimes your posts make some sort of vague sense), are you allowed to use power tools?