Band Saw, Chop Saw, or Other..What do you NOGS use?
 

I'm going to purchase something soon for at home. I don't like chopsaws because you have to chop through 3/16" and they are slow and they grab and they make for a lot of cleanup after the sloppy cut.

On the other hand I have never really used a bandsaw. I was checking sears.com and came across this:
http://beta.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_...yword=band+saw

Seemed like a decent price. I really don't know though. Seems like a pretty flexible piece of equipment. Once again, I really don't know because I have never used on. I am trying to get furthur into metal fabrication and starting to weld more, eventually get a decent tig and start doing SS and aluminum?

So I need some opinions here from you superfabbin'----------ers, PLEASE. :6

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i use a watercooled hf bandsaw, it works pretty good.

i paid $699 for mine with a 2 year warrenty

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bandsaw, chopsaw, sawzall, hacksaw, tinsnips, air 4" cutoff, torch, i use it al :6 :6 :6l

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Where did you get it? what kind of work are you doing with it? Is it anything like the one at the link I posted?

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Bansdsaw seems to make much cleaner cuts... Cant help think that the material is less apt to be contaminated nearly as much either....


Chop saw for the quickness tho fo sho

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Quickness initially, but then you gotta spend a couple minutes cleaning up the cut because the chopsaw dragged half the material all over the place. >:(

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yes it is set up like that but much bigger and water cooled.

i use it to fab manifolds/dp/dt, exhaust, pretty much what ever i need to cut i use it. unless it is some shitty steel then the chop saw gets that.

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http://www.grizzly.com/products/4-x-...-Bandsaw/G0622

The craftsman one looks remarkably the same ::)

I use the aforementioned grizzly and it rocks.

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i have been using a $150 Harbor freight bandsaw for 6-7 years now. i would probably jump off a bridge if it was gone one day. i would use it over a chop saw any day. you get way better cuts, less wasted material, quieter, no sparks, and not messy at all except some fine shavings right under the saw. you can also use it for cutting almost anything like pvc, rubber, sheet metal, wood, anything. i wouldnt be surprised if the blades last longer too.

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chopsaws are good for cutting rusty as ---- and haggard fluxcore charge piping when you dont want to ruin your table.

i've had the same blade in the bandsaw using it daily for 8mos, cutting stainless/wood(hardwoods)/mildsteel/non-ferrous/acrylic and lexan(polycarbonate) and i can't tell new from used in cut quality.

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i need to get a bandsaw.. ------ hot metal dust everywhere

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Chopsaw, bandsaw, arcwelder cranked up and blow through material

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angle grinder... yomps...

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i use dewalt shopsaw with abrasive blade, 4 in angle grinder, and sawzaw... if you cant do it with those, i dont need to be doing it...

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i got one of those grizzleys but mine is a King.. cost me $150.. best money spent ever.

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i just use a chopsaw and then clean it up with a 6" bench grinder and die grinder with carbide bit

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Chopsaw works well if you have a good blade and a powerful one. Hf units seem to be underpowered.

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i think the main issue with a bandsaw is getting a worth while blade, get the most expensive blade and you wont be disappointed.

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anyone ever use one of those portable bandsaws for cutting flanges, collectors, exhaust, ---- like that

i was thinkin about getting one because it would be nice to use it on some ---- i could never fit in a $300 bandsaw like motorcycle frames and car parts. that are still on the car

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=47840 <- like this.

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true, i have both a Dewalt and a HF saw, they both get the job done, the HF just takes a bit longer

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The dewalt is nasty it was worth the 200 bucks.

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im glad mine was free.99

guy said it didnt work, i brought it home, plugged it in, and it worked great :6

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Attachment 9440

Paid $100 for it ..

worth every cent.

Also have a Dewalt Chop Saw for when u just wanna git er done.

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when i get my own place, with my own garage... ill be getting a bansaw like the one above... makes such nicer cleaner cuts... but till then, i get it all done with the choper.

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sawzall and bench vise cause im gangster like that and im poor and its what i have

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I'm seriously surprised no one has mentioned a jig saw yet. They're cheap and with the right blade, they can do wonders!

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Sawsall ;)

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Another option is an endurance saw from milwaki. Its not as versital as a band saw, but the 8" saw will cut up to 3" thick, it cuts clean and requires no real grinding. I use them for lots of general metal cutting. Cuts strait lines great, portable, ect. They don't do any curves and blades are kinda steep, but they last along time. They really work great.

I use a 20 year old Delta 10" miter saw and a metal cutting blade from Heleta (heleta.com). I had a huge Carolina horizontal band saw until I tried the heleta blade. With this blade the saw cuts 1/4" wall square tube like butter. I didn't believe it until I tried it myself, but the cut is faster and far superior to the bandsaw.

For curves, inside corners and brackets, I use the $10 vertical bandsaw that was converted to cut metal by the previous owner...that's another story all together...

Jerry

HF band saw. Put a good Olsen brand 18 TPI blade in it and it will cut anything. Dont use Morse blades, they are too hard and break as the saw doesn't have the worlds best alignment rollers, but, somehow it still manages to cut really really friggin straight. Paid $150 and as said above, I would rather jump of a bridge that go without it now.