I'm guessing there will be some here who own and use the `nobex' mitre saw.
I've owned one for several yrs, but don't use it all that often. When I do though, it will likely be a fair bit of work. A fair bit as in hobby usage .. not commercial.
But even after quite a few cuts with it, numbering by now well into the hundreds, I've never found a way to use it smoothly.
Mine came with a variety of sizes of those new style flame hardened blades that show the heat treating coloration and have very sharp and long lasting teeth.
However those same teeth are absolutely terrible about hanging up. Even in soft pine.
Even with serious concentration I'm able to only get a few strokes before the blade will catch. By `catch' I mean just a momentary bite or snag that throws off the smooth stroke. Easy enough to ram it on through but not so easy to get a smooth stoke going with the constant snagging.
I almost never have this trouble with my frame saws or just plain old long blade carpenter saws... even a 5 tooth rip I use (usually for fast crosscutting) is many times smoother to stoke evenly.
If I use the mitre box extensively it really gets to be an aggravation.
I'm guessing its that style of blade. The teeth are really small and apparently not intended to be sharpened by the user. They appear to have very little set, which I suspect is the cause of the problem.
Or am I just a seriously inept oaf, and no one else has any trouble with those blades?
Looking online for replacement blades, all I see are similar to the ones I already have. The new style flame hardened ones with tiny teeth.
The least number of teeth I see is 12, whereas I can cut smoothly with a frame saw with 7 teeth per inch... and maintain its set and sharpness myself. Not much set but is enough to virtually eliminate snagging.
But not so good for repeated angles.
I could probably adapt the frame saws' blades to work on the nobex but it would take a fair bit of tinkering. You'd end up burning up a few drill bits unless you softened the blade locally. And the nobex frame has little nubs you'd have to either file off or drill even more holes in the blade to accommodate.
I wondered if there is a source that has the old style blades that one can hand sharpen and set to taste but that are designed for the nobex, or will work on it with only minor tinkering.