Radial saws?

[T i m]

Bit of a trek for me though. ;-(

Cheers, T i m

[Roger Mills]

Well, it's bigger than a hand-held circular saw, for sure. I park mine on top of my table saw when it's not in use.

this is what it looks like mounted on the Workmate, ready for use:

[The Medway Handyman]

I've got an old Axminster which will do 300mm but its far too big a beast to carry in a Kangoo van. 90% of my needs are to cut a maximum of 6 x 2 & 6" deck boards.

Horses etc

[The Medway Handyman]

I've got one of them Wickes points cards, so I had £30 worth of vouchers. That made it a good deal for me.

Two of us & four days.

[TheOldFellow]

I have a Radial Arm Saw that can cut 700mm. But it cost £700 (some time ago). I would not buy another one. I only use it infrequently as the time it takes to set it up accurately is a PITA. However, if you ever need to cut 600-700 wide stuff repeatedly, say to make a wood panel wall (it can do raised panels too), it's the bee's knees.

R.

[Harry Bloomfield]

T i m was thinking very hard :

7.2Kg, so not particularly heavy just rather awkwardly shaped.

[John Rumm]

Yup, I know what you mean. I did all the studwork for my first proper workshop with an 8" £30 nutool chop saw. It was cheap (in construction), flimsy, and not in any way refined. However it would cut

4x2 very quickly, and square enough repeatedly. It was also fairly small and light. So for jobs like that its much faster than hand sawing. Dust was not too bad in fact - tending to direct most down and back.

The other things these excel at is when you want a cut that is shaving half a mm off the end of a stud (or any fraction of a blade kerf) - dead easy on a chop saw, but difficult to do by hand.

If you can cope with a chop saw, then they will probably last better at a lower price point - there is less to go wrong. Even a cheap slider may be ok since you are not demanding pin point accuracy. The only thing you need to avoid is one that gets sticky enough to be dangerous (i.e. requiring too much push and then "letting go" unexpectedly etc).

Indeed. With a chop saw the price jump from shed mid range to top of the range is not actually that great. For example:

move to a 10" fixed blade is probably a good compromise between an

8" fixed and 8" slider.

There are a number of fairly light weight alloy ones about that fold up into something about the size of a small set of golf clubs. Makro do/did a JCB branded thing for about £60 IIRC that would do the job nicely.

[T i m]

I guess it's not that big but it is quite long and awkwardly shaped.

I really must go though my workshop now the weather is getting slightly more predictable.

Cheers, T i m

[Dave]

I ended up leaving it in an outside shed for 9 months, because of the storage problem and I have just been out to look at the slider bars and they are showing slight corrosion. Trouble is, if you oil them, the wood will stick to the oil and clog up the bore of he sliders. Under normal storage conditions, I would have said use graphite powder as a lubricant.

Anyone got any ideas on this pleas?

Dave

[Harry Bloomfield]

Angle Gr - sorry. WD40 should be good for that.

[Dave]

I'll stick to Schobright if you don't mind :-)

Dave

[Dave]

Make that Scotch bright.

Dave

[The Medway Handyman]

>> Yes, I've got one of those and, as I have said on earlier occasions,

I have an almost new folding SCMS stand that I don't have a use for - and its clogging up the workshop

its any good to anyone, a bottle of scotch would secure it. Have to sort out delivery somehow.

[The Medway Handyman]

Have you been drinking Scho again? :-)

[Dave]

No, we have had the g daughters up for the last two weeks and I have spent the last 36 hours tidying up after them :-(((

I'm looking forward to a lie in in the morning, without having to listen to what the youngest is up to, she gets up very early and I have to be semi awake to hear what she is doing. She is very good and watches TV until someone gets up.

Dave

[JTM]

Know that feeling well. Just returned 3 g/kids. Last summer we had 4 of our own g kids + my sister and her 4 g kids.- allat the same time for three weeks. Lovely. ;-(

ours has just done the same, watch tv or gone back to her room until we got up. At home though it's straight into parent's room to wake them up

John