Subject: Re: How can a poor boy cut sheetmetal w/out a shear?

From: [email-masked] (GXMiller)
Date: 21 Jul 1996 09:55:45 -0400

I've heard that a Skil saw will cut sheet metal better if you put the
blade in backwards.

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From: [email-masked] (James Wilkins)
Date: 23 Jul 1996 17:11:33 GMT

> I've heard that a Skil saw will cut sheet metal better if you put the
This can work surprisingly well, at least on stainless steel which has low
heat conductivity.  The workpiece gets hot enough from friction that it
starts to weld to the blade and is torn off in tiny red-hot particles.  
The blade stays cooler because a lot of blade rubs on a small area of
sheetmetal.  The blade wears/melts back slowly but still cuts.  I've been
unable to get mild steel hot enough to cut with only blade friction.

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From: [email-masked] (John Ingham)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 02:03:21 GMT

And a band blade... but only to a certain extent..

>I've heard that a Skil saw will cut sheet metal better if you put the

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