What Did You Buy Today?

My friend cuts with it like he's cutting wood, and I've seen him get kickbacks. I do a slow feed, and have not had any issues.
 
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Almost lost it (the saw, and almost lost my mind) today. I was coming up my street and the FedEx truck was parked in the road right in front of my house. Another vehicle was parked in the other lane blocking any chance I had to get in the driveway. After about 1 minute, I set the timer...4 more minutes pass. In the meantime, my eBay notification comes through that my package was delivered by FedEx!

Hmm. He must have delivered it and Chatty Charlie is keeping him from moving along. Five minutes is a long time when you are watching some guy just block the road for his own pleasure.

Anyway, the blockage clears. I pull into my driveway. No package. I jump back in the car and chase the driver down. He was a little surprised to see me. After asking him where he delivered my saw, we figured out he delivered to 43 Upper Welden, not 43 Upper Newton. He said he would go get it. I beat him to it.

This saw is awesome. I have a big project coming up that will require hundreds of cuts in 2x2x3/16 steel tubing. I don’t have a lot of space or money to drop $1000 or more on a decent bandsaw that will cut square. I considered the abrasive disc route but that’s too slow and no guarantee for square cuts.

To say this thing cuts through butter, cleanly and squarely is not only accurate but a bit of an understatement. Very few burrs, dead straight and square AND an uncanny similarity to cutting wood. It is very strange.

I did have one piece of 1x1x 1/8 angle that kicked and got thrown into the wall. I’m going to need to study up a little more on use.

Also. LOUD. Ear protection is mandatory

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Very happy with this saw.


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This is a great saw. I have the version from Fein which looks very similar with solid cast iron base and vise with a nice drawer for chip collection.

Your experience with the kicked piece is the down side of this saw, it can break teeth(s) on the blade and send pieces flying..., make sure everything you cut is super tightly held down in the vise. Put a counter shim in the vise if the piece is not 100% held tightly by the vise. Also control the force/speed that you apply to go into the material. It is noisy and chips fly all over but it is fast and accurate...

After some heavy usage I replaced the original blade with this Diablo blade that also does an amazing job cutting aluminium solids (6061 and 7075) with milling like quality, just go slow and put some WD40 as a lubricant.

I needed a more capable saw and I am expecting delivery of a Jet 7x10-1/2 miter bandsaw later this week. I am busy making space in the shop...

Ariel
 
This cute little Vertex 6" rotary table showed up. Seems like a pretty well-made piece of equipment. It arrived missing one of the locking levers. Hopefully Eisen will just send me one.
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@Peyton Price 17 What ever the reason, congratulations. I wish I had started my shop when I was your age. But I was never in one place long enough being a transplant many times starting when I graduated the 1st grade and moved from San Fernando, CA to Tillamook, OR, then after high school too many times.

While I believe you earn what you get, at least what I have gathered from your posts. You are a lucky young man to be born and grow up in one area. I still have my friends from Tillamook, but it isn't the same. But I am fortunate to have them.
 
Today I got paid for a welding job that I have been working on for a long time.

I bought 20 Pferd 8”-14” file handles, 8 of those sized various Pferd files (mill, square, triangular, round, half-round), railroad chalk, 1 gallon Mobil Vactra #2, 10 A6 carbide triangular inserts, & 10 A6 carbide parting inserts.

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Carbide Insert TNMS-332-A6

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Not familiar but I need some files! Is Pferd a quality brand? How to those handles attach? They look pretty cool.
Robert
 
ACHiPo said:
This cute little Vertex 6" rotary table showed up. Seems like a pretty well-made piece of equipment. It arrived missing one of the locking levers. Hopefully Eisen will just send me one.
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I bought the same one from the same people which came with a ding in one of the dials which appeared to have happened in transit. They had me send them a picture of the damage and sent me a replacement right away.
 
wlburton said:
I bought the same one from the same people which came with a ding in one of the dials which appeared to have happened in transit. They had me send them a picture of the damage and sent me a replacement right away.
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The replacement lever is en route. Pretty impressive service (although it would be more impressive if they didn't have to send a part that should be there--doesn't give me much confidence in the stamped tolerance QC measurements!)
 
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