New Milwaukee brand circular saw

It looks a lot like the Evolution saw being sold by Jancy and others. Interesting. I heard Porter Cable was coming out with one too.

I saw the Porter Cable. It looks identical to the Evolution and Milwaukee saws.

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How loud are these things? Louder than an abrasive chopsaw?

The chopsaw versions are very loud, but the skilsaw style ones are not as loud. I have a Porter Cable 1410 dry-cut chopsaw, and a Skil 77 wormdrive with a steel cutting blade on it.

I hope they (Milwaukee) come out with a 7 1/4" blade as well as the 8" they are producing. Maybe the competition among the blade manufactures will bring the prices down.

I wonder why Milwaukee went with an 8" blade instead of the more common 7 1/4"?

That Milwaukee machine sure looks nice, but I wonder if those fancy metal cutting blade could also be used in a regular woodworking circular saw. Anybody tried?

I could not find at the web site, would you have an url handy?

Tenryu Steelpro blades and Morse Metal Devil blades are intended to be used in 7-1/4" worm drive skilsaws.

Matsushita also makes a good one.

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:52:39 -0800, jerry_tig2003 wrote (in message ):

Anybody know what the price is on this puppy?

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I dont know what the price is on that thing. I would buy their belt sander first for my needs -

But one thing I noticed about Milwaukee - they advertise a lot of tools in their flyers which dont seem to show up at the website.

They have a very large diameter (14 in ?) hand held chopsaw which takes the large sintered carbide blades - for steel or concrete. It has the body of their largest angle grinder - but it has a cutoff wheel on it instead of sanding disks. Truly awe inspiring - but difficult to locate at the website.

My bet on the larger blade - several :

1. so we don't put this new blade in our wood working tools and get hurt.
2. more teeth per rev. If it is a triple chip blade that would help.

I'm surprised it wasn't like a heavy duty diamond blade - almost smooth circle with carbide or boron in the places were diamond would be.

Maybe they did.

Martin

Lowest price I've found so far (it should be here on Friday :)

Just read somewhere - the teeth on those blades are "cermet" - a composite of metal and ceramic - once thought to be a somewhat useless material not so long ago.

Anybody know anything about weldability of cermets ?

Anyone ever seen this stuff ??

I think that there are several ways to create a cermet - one method is to use a ceramic like a sponge to soak up molten metal. Theoretically - this "should" be weldable. ?

As far as I know all the hand held dry-cut saws use Cermet teeth. I know Tentryu does.

They are never welded, just silver soldered.

And there are clamp and screw down inserts for machine tools using cermet.

Martin

Not a bad price.

With Evolution, Porter Cable and now Milwaukee selling them, maybe some refurbished ones will show up at Harbor Freight soon.

Harbor freight already has a knock-off for sale.

And here is the Makita Cordless metal cutting saw

And a knock-off cold saw

And yep, they even sell the real one

Is there anything they don't sell?