Well I am surprised. I would think you could cut a lot of flooring with a circular saw before it ran out of battery, the wood is pretty thin and although the laminations would play hell on the teeth and dull the blade relatively rapidly you should be good for several hundreds.
----- Original Message ----- From: Scott Howell To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 6:09 AM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] cutting straight lines Actually this is a circular saw. I'd consider Milwaukee to be a pretty decent tool. It's an 18V unit and the battery packs are actually new, but I am beginning to believe less and less in the claims of most manufacturers on battery claims. However, I got the entire kit at a good price so can't complain much. I agree buying something that is to much on the lines of junk would be a bad bet and I can't honestly say what would I do in the future. Appreciate the input, I suspect this is trial and error to some degree. I was speaking of a jig saw earlier and it does a very nice job for ripping these boards as well, but the circular saw does the job more efficiently, where the jig is helping me do the notching that is required. tnx On Jun 14, 2008, at 9:31 PM, Dale Leavens wrote: > Sorry that I can't help you with your battery saw, I have never used > one but it should be sufficient for your purposes, what make and > size and power is it? I wonder if the battery pack is a little old. > > I would warn you about buying a cheap sort of any saw, any tool > really. This is particularly true if you intend to do more and learn > more, a poor tool will soon discourage you and you will either end > up replacing it with a better one in which case you could have > purchased an even better one with the money you spend on the two of > them. I suspect this is partially what you are experiencing with the > saw you presently have. > > When you are using a straight edge though, you will usually do just > fine with both hands in their intended place and using the front > hand to both keep the face down and shifted toward the edge. Is this > a circular saw or a jig saw? I just realized that you had been > speaking of a jig saw in earlier posts. > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.3.0/1502 - Release Date: 6/13/2008 7:25 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
