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dlockers said:
What do you folks use to trim metal roofing sheets?

Unfortunately they only had 3M lengths in stock, so I have to cut every single one (14 total).
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If you have a circular saw with a normal wood blade and you're really cheap, you can flip the blade over and use that. Or spend the £25 on a metal cutting blade. Fast for lots of long straight cuts. I used my old evo saw with a multi blade when I had to trim a section a few years ago
 
wsurfa said:
If you have a circular saw with a normal wood blade and you're really cheap, you can flip the blade over and use that. Or spend the £25 on a metal cutting blade. Fast for lots of long straight cuts. I used my old evo saw with a multi blade when I had to trim a section a few years ago
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Ah interesting - so I could track saw it? That'd make life a lot easier....
 
dlockers said:
Ah interesting - so I could track saw it? That'd make life a lot easier....
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Yes, I used the evolution saw on a track as you can clamp to the sheet, which makes managing the vibration & lumps easier. It will spit bits of metal around (like it does wood chips) and it will be noisy, so good eye & ear protection needed. I've seen people online cut more than 1 sheet at a time, not sure if I'd recommend that, but I dont recall my saw slowing at all so it might be easy.
 
Elderly neighbour just gave me a wired circular saw. It's a skilsaw 5466, right hand blade position,190mm blade X 16mm centre.

I need a masonry blade for cutting some concrete slabs, any suggestions that will fit this saw please?
 
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wsurfa said:
Yes, I used the evolution saw on a track as you can clamp to the sheet, which makes managing the vibration & lumps easier. It will spit bits of metal around (like it does wood chips) and it will be noisy, so good eye & ear protection needed. I've seen people online cut more than 1 sheet at a time, not sure if I'd recommend that, but I dont recall my saw slowing at all so it might be easy.
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Did you flip the blade over?
 
oggiet said:
Gonna be installing whole lot of laminate flooring and think table saw would help.

Any recommendations for not silly money please :)
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The cheapest B&Q thing has worked out well for me, not just for oodles of laminate, but cutting down kitchen units and anything else, plus easier/small to store.. It's not high precision but good enough that it has surprised me:

£85 - https://www.diy.com/departments/mac...orded-table-saw-mtsp800b/3663602467564_BQ.prd

It's still going after a few years..

However, for speed/ I tend to use a chop saw (sliding mitre in my case) and a jig saw for contour cuts and really now just use the table saw for ripping whole lengths down..
 
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oggiet said:
Gonna be installing whole lot of laminate flooring and think table saw would help.

Any recommendations for not silly money please :)
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What distance?

Any lengthwise rips will probably be covered by scotia or skirting. I'd go for a chop saw and prioritise speed, and a jigsaw for the longer lengths.

Laminate EATS blades as well, buy a tonne. I must have got through about 20 doing my 50sqm downstairs.
 
dlockers said:
What distance?

Any lengthwise rips will probably be covered by scotia or skirting. I'd go for a chop saw and prioritise speed, and a jigsaw for the longer lengths.

Laminate EATS blades as well, buy a tonne. I must have got through about 20 doing my 50sqm downstairs.
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Because I use a table/chop and jigsaw for their respective tasks, I'm still on the original blades of the chop/table saws and only a handful of laminate blades for the jigsaw (well I'm on my second, I bought a 3 pack years ago) after hundreds of m2 of laminate..


It's a dilemma for sure... lots of blades vs buying more tools..
 
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dlockers said:
What distance?

Any lengthwise rips will probably be covered by scotia or skirting. I'd go for a chop saw and prioritise speed, and a jigsaw for the longer lengths.

Laminate EATS blades as well, buy a tonne. I must have got through about 20 doing my 50sqm downstairs.
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Already got a jigsaw and chop saw. Laminate planks are 1200mm long.

Reason I was thinking table saw is because I will need to for cutting laminate that will be seen as will be putting laminate on the stairs and will need to cut MDF for stair risers.
Might just get mitre saw as will be doing skirting as well.
 
danlightbulb said:
Elderly neighbour just gave me a wired circular saw. It's a skilsaw 5466, right hand blade position,190mm blade X 16mm centre.

I need a masonry blade for cutting some concrete slabs, any suggestions that will fit this saw please?
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Just googled that and those that came up were 110v -have you checked it yet. ?
 
Got a makita xgt recip saw and 2*2.5ah batteries arriving tomorrow.

I already own a bunch of dewalt stuff but I have wanted to move back to makita for a while now and the deal I got on this recip saw was too good to pass up.

Next in like is some makita garden attachments. Strimmer etc.
 
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