I can't seem to find an old post that talked about a carbide tipped saw for cutting steel that can be used in a normal abrasive cuttoff saw. Can anyone please point me to the site where they have these. None of the local manufacturers make anything bigger then 230mm and I need 300mm plus for cutting larger HRS. Tks in advance John Allen New Zealand.
No the dry-cut carbide blades are meant to be used in Dry-cut saws. They look like abrasive saws, but run at 1/2 the RPM and twice the torque.
There are dry-cut blades that can be used in any worm drive circular saw.
brands:
Tenryu Steel Pro
Morse Metal Devil
Matsushita
Ernie--how do abrasive wheels do in the dry-cut saw? I seem to remember you recommending them for stainless, but can't recall which saw you were using. I've got a 14" Dewalt dry cut saw.
Jeff Dantzler Seattle, WA
Really well, but if you have been using stick wax as a cutting lube the sparks from the abrasive wheel will smoke out the wax residue inside the blade guard. It will produce quite a bit of smoke.
Dry-cut saws have a much stronger frame and pivot system, so the abrasive wheel doesn't deflect as much.
It gives very straight cuts. I sometimes swap in an abrasive wheel when cutting a lot of thin wall stainless steel tube. That stuff tears up dry-cut blades.
I've purchased a blade made by Matsushita
There are other manufacturers that make them, just do a search for "steel cutting saw blades" and you'll find info which seems to corraborate some of the comments that others have made.
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