Hi Jewel, I have been away for a couple of weeks but kept this to respond to you.
A reciprocating saw will take various lengths of blade. I have used them up to about 10 inches long. They may even come longer but they do get a little difficult to handle at those lengths. They also come in various aggressiveness, very fine teeth to very coarse ones. These saws are not used for any sort of refined work, usually they are used for demolition. They work very well to cut the nails out from between a window frame or door frame and the main building structure. I don't have a chain saw so I sometimes use mine for cutting out big stuff from my hedge or to cull material out of my lilac tree. Although the stroke is only a little better than an inch you can have many inches of teeth engaged at any time. When I was building this addition I also used mine to cut the sheathing out for the windows and doors by very slowly and carefully inserting the tip of the blade into the sheathing from the inside while holding the heel of the machine tightly against the framing. This can be difficult to handle and it sometimes wants to grab or just hammer away usually bending or breaking the blade and giving the user a wonderful shake in the process. I have to say the chap who came over one Sunday afternoon with his little electric chain saw did a much easier and quieter job of it. I also liked using it for cutting rebar with a short hacksaw blade installed, used up blades in a hurry though but I was able to cut up a lot in a hurry compared with using a hand saw. Hope this is useful information. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jewel Blanch To: bhm Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 12:06 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Reciprocating saw I see from reading Ray's post on reciprocating saws that it has a stroke of 1 1/8th inches. Now this is merely a fraction of the stroke that one gets when using a hand saw: a saw that, if you have the energy, can be used to cut timber of any size. With an electric reciprocating saw, is one restricted to timber etc of no more than 1 1/8th inches in diameter or width? Jewel [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
