Cut metal with a mitre saw?

thanks. I asked because I googled a bit and found a place where they were talking about rpm's for metal cutting as against wood and blah, blah... and sort of made the water murky...

That'll be excellent. I use a big angle grinder in a kind of cut off saw cradle thing and the problem with it is that I can't get it to cut 45 degrees good. Not enough room in the jig.

Whereas the mitre saw, of course, is made for just that.

Off to Bunnings then....

Yep. Well they seemed to be saying the two required rpm's were very different. And I can't vary the rpm of my saw.

So okay I can get a blade. What about the existing aluminum blade I have to hand here. Would that do for cutting a couple of dozen mitres on galv rect hollow section fence rail? 1.6mm wall it looks like to me.

I was just in Bunnings and came back. Looks like the cheapest and therefore most suss was $45 and 'good' looks to be around $100.

Looked on ebay and - strange thing - they seem to have lost all their bargain price China stuff - everything was more expensive than Bunnings.

Might stick to using the grinder for a while. But good to have all the info. ....

Yep. I have had the same thought many times. And they pull all kinds of tricks to get first on the list so's the unwary just buy the first thing that comes up. Many don't even think to opt for 'lowest price + packaging'. And have you seen now how they advertise a price range instead of the price? So you want some dumb thing - a pen, say - and they advertise at $1. But when you go to buy you have to choose a colour. and any colour available costs $10 ? That kind of thing?

We've sure learned a lot about how crooked some people can be in recent years haven't we? And still learning. How about our governments? Who knew? Total, absolute, committed, unapologetic, remorseless liars...

phew...

Yep, that's a good trick, much used on ebay too I think..

The good days seem to have gone. A Chinese friend tells me everything is different in China now. Factories are closing and stuff.


I think their govt was subsidising their sales: sell cheap to us overseas and their govt made up the difference for them so's they could stay in business. Or it was a govt business anyway. And why run at a loss like that? For foreign currency. To get Dollars from overseas.

But now China is into BRICS and they're dumping their US Treasury bonds apparently... all stuff like that.

That's what I hear/read. How much sense there is in it I don't know. I don't understand that stuff too well.

Whatever. Bit sad though. Going well there for a while weren't we?.

Fine with me... just let 'em step in with some affordable (but good) gear...