Cutting Melamine

Apr 11, 2006 21 Replies

The problem with going much beyond 60t on a 10" circular saw with carbide tips is it leaves little room for both a gullet and steel behind the carbide tooth. You can have 80 and 100 teeth but you had better be gentle with them. Usually when they fail the steel is ripped away along with the tooth. A little less of an occurance now with salt quenching and laser cut plates but still a factor worth consideration. Good practice is using as few teeth as produce an acceptable cut. This means fence and blade must be parallel.

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This may be true sometimes, but considering that blade is about 14 years old by now, and has had lots of abuse heaped on it, it's certainly not a factor with this one.

Not so with the Stanley wobble dado I bought. Lost three teeth in almost the first use. Mind you, that was probably only 24T.

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