Aluminium Profile/Extrusion Easy To Cut !

[irving2008]

Lee,

What chopsaw is that? I am looking at getting one (cutting 1" thick aluminium plate by hand yesterday nearly did my elbow in). There's a 1200W/210mm one at Screwfix for £40 or a slightly better 1800W one for £70. might pop down to B&Q later and see what they have got.

[Robin Hewitt]

I regularly rough out aluminium plate on a wood bandsaw with a skip tooth. Works okay up to 1/2" but 5/8 is dismally slow. Saves a lorra lorra milling.

I did have a table that fitted to the metal bandsaw and fed the metal in on a couple of linear rods, powered by a sash weight over a small pulley. Worked okay, haven't adapted it for the new bandsaw yet.

I do foresee a slight snag with that though, if I don't turn on the slurry the blade comes off after a while which is totally annoying. Not sure the slurry will find it's way back to the pump with the saw in the vertical position :nope:

[irving2008]

Just bought a chopsaw in the sale at B&Q, got the last one and it was 15% off the sale price too - £50 down from £85. Uses 210 x 30 blades.

Amazon have 210x30x60t or 64t in stock

[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000MTJE06/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=471057153&pf_rd_s=lp o-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0012B7SYM&pf_rd_m=A3P5 ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=0994KF8VQGH2CJGG8K8P"]Draper 210x30x60t, £9.97[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000MQ65BU/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_3?pf_rd_p=471057153&pf_rd_s=lp o-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0012B7SYM&pf_rd_m=A3P5 ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=0994KF8VQGH2CJGG8K8P"]Draper 210x30x64t, £8.39[/ame]

[ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/210mm-30mm-Circular-Saw-Blade/dp/B0012B7SYM"]Summit 210x30x64t, £11.99[/ame]