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dumb guy wants to weld, how to cut steel |
JerryP |
Jan 7 2005, 03:01 PM
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member Group: Members Posts: 314 Joined: 8-October 03 From: Berwyn, PA Member No.: 1,225 |
I'm trying to start my amateur welding career and work my way up to fixing my rusty '74 parts car. For now I just need to miter cut some 1/8 " angle iron.
I have an angle grinder, sawzall and miter saw but never miter cut steel before. Will one of these do with a metal cutting blade or should I just bite the bullet and buy a real cut off saw. If so, any suggestions on what to buy? TIA. |
zabo |
Jan 7 2005, 04:55 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: 13-October 04 From: Nashvegas Member No.: 2,940 |
I too am just starting my welding amature career and needed a cheap chop saw. Here is what I did. Lowes sells a compound miter saw made by gmc. It is a pretty generic set up and small. I got it to cut trim when I remodelled my house last year. Anyway. I got a skill saw metal cutting blade to put on it. Funny thing though being a foreign saw, the mandrell was too big for the blade. I used my grinder to grind
the mandrel smaller to fit the metal cutting blade and viola', I have a cheap compound chop saw. Works like a charm. the hard part is that you have to be careful to grind the new smaller mandrel on center of the old one or you will have a wobley (and thus quite dangerous) chopsaw. I got lucky and I managed to center the new grind well. It works like a charm. And cheap too. Take this for what it is worth... a Free idea to a cheap solution. I dont want to be giving bad advise. good luck. |
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