Cutting block pavers with a diamond disc in a chop saw

[Zen83237]

I posted a few weeks back about cutting the kerb pavers with a block cutter and one reply mentions using a diamond disc in a chop saw. I went to my local tool shop and they frowned upon cutting aggregates in a chop saw as the dust knackers the motors ( using air cooling). Now I did see a saw on one site that had a water apray sysetm but I can't remember where. Now this one does say that it will cut aggregates.

have any recommendations for a saw.I could hire a brick cutter but I tend to do diy jobs at my leasure so wouldneed to hire one on 2 or 3 occasions. I woul rather buy a reasonable pricedsaw and then keep it for other jobs.Kevin

[Stuart Noble]

have any recommendations for a saw.I could hire a brick cutter but I tend to do diy jobs at my leasure so wouldneed to hire one on 2 or 3 occasions. I woul rather buy a reasonable pricedsaw and then keep it for other jobs.Kevin

I think a saw runs at half the speed of a grinder. What difference that makes in practice I don't know

[Dave Plowman (News)]

As does an angle grinder more commonly used for this task.

[Zen83237]

This came up in my original post. My cutting with a 9" angle grinder isn't very straight. It isn't the blocks so much as the kerb pieces. I have a situation from my garage along a boundary and a kerb block will be too wide so I need to cut 1 or 2 inches off the width, otherwise the garage door wont open fully.

Kevin

[Zen83237]

Just that the brick cutter would give a nice straight cut.

Kevin

[Stuart Noble]

Pretty expensive. Couldn't you just use an angle grinder stand?

[Zen83237]

If it came to a brick cutter I would hire it. I could just about justify buying a chop saw on the basis of using it for other jobs. I have never heard of an angle grinder stand so I will investigate.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

You can get stands for angle grinders so they work rather like a chop saw.

But a cheap chop saw - being more common - might not cost anymore.

In case it wasn't clear, I'm not sure 'they' take more precautions against dust getting into an angle grinder than a chop saw. None of the ones I've seen use filters.

[Zen83237]

I did think that the retailer was may be being a bit over cautious. May be they got stung once too opten with returned boken chop saw.

[The Medway Handyman]

saw (no pun intended) a demo of the hand held version once ?ts=99958Very impressive it was too. Much less dust than an angle grider as it seemed to 'cut' rather than 'abrade' IYSWIM.

They only cut stone with a diamond blade though - which is £48 extra.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

?ts=99958> Very impressive it was too. Much less dust than an angle grider as it

Would be down to the type of blade, I'd guess.

I have a diamond blade for my angle grinder. Cost more than the machine. ;-)

I've used a plasplugs tile cutter to cut paving slabs - slow but gives a beautiful edge.

[The Medway Handyman]

?ts=99958>>> Very impressive it was too. Much less dust than an angle grider as

Aldi do them every now & then - really cheap & very good.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I got the 9" angle grinder from Lidl - but have never seen that size diamond discs there. So went to Screwfix. It was for a particular job and paid for itself. Nearest Aldi is a 90 minute round trip away.