Wrecked Aluminium from chopsaw

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Originally Posted by Dale

The best $1K I ever spent was when we moved from using a chop saw with aluminum blade to a cold saw. Besides the piece of mind of knowing students fingers are likely to stay attached, the noise is vastly less. Cold saws just turn at around 100 rpm so the difference is night and day. Ours is this one from Jet.

If your cold saw is running at around 100 RPM it is likely a cold saw for ferrous material.

Non ferrous cold saws are up in the 2000-3000 RPM range