Rick Potter
03-01-2007, 4:30 AM
Went to the church last night to install some light fixtures in an old building we are remodeling. At the same time the AWANA leader (kids club) was setting up to make some simple boats for a race the kids do every year. The boats are a simple 1X4 about seven inches long cut to a point on the prow, with a dowel for a mast. The kids do the rest.
Anyway he and a helper, neither of which know anything about tools, started cutting them up with a borrowed chop saw. Simple cuts...pine...longest cut is four inches. They had fifty or so to make. After a while they came to get me, saying the saw blade had gone bad.
I went to look and found the 10" blade had buckled about one inch, took out the bottom insert, and came around and buried itself an inch and a half in the aluminum part of the upper blade guard. I have never seen anything like it. I took it apart to check if the blade had come loose, but it hadn't. The arbor was straight, the motor was not loose. As I said, the blad was buckled an inch, and there was a tear in the blade about that long where it had hit the saw.
Since the job was not done and the saw ran ok, they went to HD and got another blade. Half an hour later they came to get me again. The new blade did the same thing again.
I cannot see how they could have heated the blade enough to warp it that much. The cuts were not that big. Carbide 60 tooth Oldham blades. It was a decent saw..a 10":confused: Delta.
Anyone have any thoughts??
Sure glad I didn't have to return that saw to the owner.
Rick Potter
Anyway he and a helper, neither of which know anything about tools, started cutting them up with a borrowed chop saw. Simple cuts...pine...longest cut is four inches. They had fifty or so to make. After a while they came to get me, saying the saw blade had gone bad.
I went to look and found the 10" blade had buckled about one inch, took out the bottom insert, and came around and buried itself an inch and a half in the aluminum part of the upper blade guard. I have never seen anything like it. I took it apart to check if the blade had come loose, but it hadn't. The arbor was straight, the motor was not loose. As I said, the blad was buckled an inch, and there was a tear in the blade about that long where it had hit the saw.
Since the job was not done and the saw ran ok, they went to HD and got another blade. Half an hour later they came to get me again. The new blade did the same thing again.
I cannot see how they could have heated the blade enough to warp it that much. The cuts were not that big. Carbide 60 tooth Oldham blades. It was a decent saw..a 10":confused: Delta.
Anyone have any thoughts??
Sure glad I didn't have to return that saw to the owner.
Rick Potter