I walked into a local close out store and found they had Sait brand 4 1/2" .045 cut off wheels for .79 cents each. I pay about $2.00 each when I buy them for the company. That check out gril was about ready to kill me when I bought all they had, 6987 of them :lol: Sold a lot to company to get back my money, and I'm still burning the rest of them up.
The cost of acetylene is getting silly, if you you do spend the bucks to get a torch set you may want to look at other fuel gasses such as propylene or propane or even gasoline. Yea, gasoline, the same stuff you put in your car. (
Petrogen | Petrogen Oxy-Gasoline Cutting Systems Home Page ) I would have changed my entire shop over but the cost of replacing all the equipment (19 torch sets) made the owners faint. I did switch the shop over to propylene as a fuel gas and we should save about $7000 to $9000 a year.
But you asked about saws all blades, they are a lot like band saw blades and need to be "broken in" before really start working them. Check out this link for more info
band saw blade Break-In Procedure the same thing applies to saws all blades
Like I tell the guys at the shop...
1) Buy "good" blades, avoid the store brand stuff.
2) brake them in before leaning on them
3) Don't lean on them, let the blade do the work.
Or look in the paper lots of people will haul away the body for the scrap value. With the price of scrap right now its easy to spend more for the blades to cut it up, then you would get for the scrap. Let them do the work. Thats what I did cut out the VIN tags and draged it to the curb, next morning it was gone. If I was luck I would have gotten maybe $100 bucks for it. Less blades and my labor.
