DAMN!
30 minutes ago, I was ripping down an old table top to reuse the wood for more clamp racks. I HIT A BURIED SCREW!!! There was no indication of any screws at all in this top.This was with a NICE, low time Freud Industrial 50T blade.
Some of the teeth do not look like a sharpening would be enough to save the blade.
DAMN!!!
Barry
They make nice clock faces for the shop.....pricey but they blend right in with the surroundings............;-)
Shoulda seen the sparks fly on mine....Zoweeeee! Scratch one Freud.
Bob S.
A decent saw shop should be able to replace the teeth.
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"> 30 minutes ago, I was ripping down an old table top to reuse the wood
You might be able to get the teeth replaced? Did you use a good metal detector on the table top at all? If not, buying one can save lots of $$. Amazon has the Lumber Wizard one sale at the moment for $69.99.
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Does it still cut well enough you can use it for future recycling efforts? (Burning be damned.)
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:07:06 GMT, B a r r y B u r k e J r . Crawled out of the shop and said. . .:
send it to ridge carbide...
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I'm looking into that, but we'll see if a $60 blade is worth repairing. Coastal's got WWII's for $89, I picked one up yesterday, which will allow me to take my time investigating fixing the Freud.
20-20 hindsight now. I rarely use recycled lumber. This screw was IN the wood, in the middle of a board.It will be my next purchase, along with another blade. I know I should be using one even with non-recycled wood.
Barry
Not really.
Barry
Barry
In a recent bout of repairing termite damage to the house, I bought 5 sheets of OSB (at greatly inflated prices). While cutting/fitting the sheathing, I noticed a strange 'bump' on the surface of one panel.
Turns out, LP had pressed a very large bolt that had fallen from the machinery into the 'plys' of the wood. This sheet made it all the way through dimensioning, Q.C., and beyond. Great stuff.
I guess the point is, even new cabinet grade plywood *could* have things in it that aren't supposed to be there.
Greg G.
I've never had a carbide blade sharpened after damage. Carbide is brittle and tends to chip further back than can be ground out. It only takes a few tooth replacements to equal the blade replacement cost.
-- Congrats to STBL on his elevation from TLA to ETLA
I've found small shavings of metal in the glueline of cabinet ply lots of times. Bridger
Barry, Take a look in your local TELEPHONE BOOK. Look for a 'Saw Sharpening Service'. One near me charges $2.50 per tooth for carbide replacement, and probably about $5.oo for the whole tooth.
I found out about them from a local 'Tool Rental' establishment. They normally charge for 'sharpening' and would be rather reticent to tell you who does it for them. However, in my case, they weren't at all sure about tooth replacement, so they told me to 'go direct'.
Regards & Good Luck, Ron Magen Backyard Boatshop
I did before I looked online. I was going to ask some locals in person tomorrow.
In the past, I've posted inquires for Connecticut sharpening services here, and gotten only Woodcraft and WWW for replies. I know somebody's doing it, but they seem to insist on keeping themselves a secret.
Barry
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:14:38 +0000, Andy Dingley brought forth from the murky depths:
I take it that you, too, buy the HFT blades at $4.99, Andy?
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No, CMT at $30 - $40
I've just never had a sawblade lose just the one tooth. If I hit something badly enough to need repair, it's always damaged a load of teeth.
-- Congrats to STBL on his elevation from TLA to ETLA
Funny thing about the $4.99 HFT blades. I bought one just to see what it was like, and it wasn't much. Tended to burn right from the start. I was ripping a bunch of 2x4s down to make furring strips and it finally got to the point it wasn't getting the job done. Just out of curiosity I had it sharpened (OK, spending $15 to sharpen a $5 blade doesn't make sense, but bear with me here). When I got it back it cut smoothly and without burning. I used it for a bunch of work after that and it did a real good job for me. Cheap blades have smaller carbide teeth so they can't be sharpened as many times, lower grade carbide and bad factory sharpening jobs. Taken as a whole they are barely adequate as delivered for cutting salvage lumber.
Tim Douglass
I've got one in my garage right now with one tooth gone. Don't know what from.
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