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Unread 25-12-2002, 01:04
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On to my 16th year in FRC
FRC #0696 (Circuit Breakers)
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Originally posted by D. Gregory
Thanks, I was always afraid of using carbide wood blades. What kind of life do you get out of them? In the begginning of last year we tried using one of those steel cutting cutoff blades. I'll put it this way, there was lots of melted aluminum and carcinogenic smoke.
The wood blade is very very loud cutting aluminum. The teeth looked a little deformed by the end of the 6 weeks but it still cuts wood and metal just as good as it ever has. It seems to work okay if hack is your style but I would recommend a fine tooth metal cutting blade.

And never use the black woven cutoff blades for aluminum.
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