Sliding mitre saw anyone?

[George]

Sunday the 25th

[Andy Hall]

proceed to a tool supplier to buy a Makita LS1013, DeWalt 708, Bosch GCM 12SD or Metabo (Elektra Beckum) KGS305.

Any of these will fulfill the role of a proper sliding compound mitre saw.

Aldi may have something that can be boiled and processed to make something that approximates to potato puree.

[George]

I think you should go into the power tool trade and start selling high quality groceries MrHall. ;-)

[Andy Hall]

A good proposition.

It would be much easier for a quality tool store to offer vouchers for a good moules-frites at a local brasserie than it is for a bulk reseller of cheap, bulk wet potatoes to attempt to sell woodworking machinery.

This is a 20:1 ratio on price vs. 5:1

[Bruce]

does, and work out why I might need one someday.

;-)

[George]

Simple anwser to that is...

Lets suppose you want to lay decking ie 200 pieces need cutting to size,now that would mean alot of effort with a hand saw.

Sure we can just buy a conventional chop saw but at the same price you can buy a cheap chop saw we have the oppertunity to buy a sliding mitre chop saw which will cut deeper and wider than the chop saw. ;-)

[Bruce]

Thanks George, that was quick!

I've been using my plain vanilla mitre saw to cut skirtings and I get irritated by the fact the saw misses just a little bit at the corner. Now I need to decide whether it is worth £50 minus 1p to remove that irritation ...

[dennis]

Or maybe filing a wee bit off the depth stop? Or fitting a slightly larger blade? Or putting a ply packing piece on the saw bed?

[The Medway Handyman]

All of course at 10 times the price of the Aldi machine.

Tempting proposition for the average DIY guy. £500 for a Makita or £50 for an Aldi. Hmmm. Wonder what the average bloke wanting to cut a few deck boards would buy?

Is that why they won 8 quality food awards in 2007?

[George]

Hah! you didn't pay attention to your woodwork teacher at school. ;-)

Pack it up on a scrap piece of wood. Also when cutting a piece of wood put a scrap piece of wood behind it...stops the other side of the wood getting splintered.

[dennis]

The Aldi one is a bit pricy. I have a PPro one that I paid £20 as a refurb that works quite well.

[George]

Magic! Dennis,now let us all know where we can get these refurb saws?

[dennis]

Well its in great bridge, Tipton.

[Bruce]

Cheaper than £50 minus 1p for sure! Thanks.

[Bruce]

That's because my school didn't teach woodwork or metalwork, despite it being a legal requirement. One of many serious disappointments about that school!

Still, I did get O Level Latin, so I suppose I should be grateful for that. Rarely has a day gone by since then without me saying to myself "I am so glad I did O level Latin, so I am."

Thanks. These are basic things that I could easily have learned in a woodwork class.

[John Rumm]

know you want one!)

[John Rumm]

I got a nice LS1214 off eBay for PPPro money....

Very nice bit of kit it is too...

[Andy Dingley]

It does that which a non-sliding chop saw doesn't, and thus makes it almost useless.

I'm about as extreme as Andy Hall when it comes to avoiding tools that are any less than stellar in performance - but I'll be buying one of these. 50 quid for making chicken coops in half the time? I'll have some of that. 30mm bore on the blade too (unusual), so you can easily find blades for it.

[Andy Hall]

and ...

That would depend on whether he wants to do a proper job or not.

Microsoft received awards for corporate citizenship.......

[Andy Hall]

Not really. You will simply replace it with another irritation when you discover that cheap SCM saws are not capable of repeatable and consistent cuts without resetting and checking before each one.