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A quick question for you people over here in DIY: I have a new bandsaw and am trying to decide what kind of blade I should get as the one it came with is butter knife dull. Something for cutting wood or metal. I cut a lot more wood in my shop than metal but for those times I need to cut some rod or something it'd be nice to just have a tool I can flip on real quick and be done with it. Tell me the downside of just slapping a metal cutting blade on that bad boy and using it as a general purpose blade. I'd like to avoid swapping blades ever unless one is worn or broken.
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May 4, 2021 15:34
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SpartanIvy posted:With the smaller teeth of a metal cutting blade it'll make slow progress through wood and generate more heat, which could cause scorch marks on larger pieces of wood you're cutting, if you ever do that. Rutibex posted:A fine toothed metal blade will work on wood, it will just take longer than a purpose made blade for wood. Okay. This is exactly what I was thinking but needed that sweet sweet goon confirmation. Thanks, goons!
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May 4, 2021 15:54
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AmbassadorofSodomy posted:LAP , just use your dangermill to cut wood and metal. That's the idea. But more teeth per inch equals less board/ft a minute trough the saw. The reason I asked in the first place was to see if someone was going to say it was unreasonably slow to cut wood with. DANGERmill has finally been retired. I'm now using the, surisingly, safer free hand slabbing.
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May 4, 2021 17:27
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:A metal cutting blade will cut wood much much much slower than a woodworking blade and probably make your saw work alot harder especially it you are cutting thicker wood. There are lots of different kinds of woodworking blades that vary from cut fast but leave a rougher finish to cut slow but a leave a very fine finish. Thanks for the link. I'm going to definitely take a gander.
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May 4, 2021 18:33
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Mr. Mambold posted:Go with a mid-range, medium set carbide toothed blade. Problem solved. Bang. Done.
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May 4, 2021 21:43
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Paul MaudDib posted:actually it's that said mower may have dumped its oil all over the garage floor after I started it up this year, lol. There are some clinometer apps available out there if you search around on the play store and such. Should let you lay your phone on the slope and spit out an angle for you.
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May 8, 2021 04:11
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Just a chime in to say that ryobi tools are totally the right price but if you're the type of person who uses tools to do stupid poo poo or are just generally mean to them they don't last long. If you are that type of person I can't recommend Makita stuff enough. I beat the gently caress out of their cordless tools on the daily and they take the beating. I've made the magic smoke appear on way to many ryobi tools to not throw out this little caveat.
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May 9, 2021 04:16
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KKKLIP ART posted:I feel like I want a planer but cheap planers suck and I don’t think I would use it enough to spend 3-500 on an “ok” one. What about meeting yourself halfway and getting a hand held power planer? It's not as efficient as a big fatty thickness planer but will still do most of what you need. Plus most of them can cut rabbets too.
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May 17, 2021 03:28
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I have an old wired Makita one and it freaking kicks rear end.
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May 17, 2021 03:29
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Bloody posted:Yeah as I understand it power planes are a niche tool for door hangers, not a portable thickness plane / powered hand plane. Your options as I understand them are a dewalt 735x, a friend or tool library of makerspace with a thickness planer, or a jack plane. You can make tools do lots of things. *looks at hand that used to have all it's digits* Seriously though, I use the gently caress out of mine like a thickness planer since my actual thickness planer bit the dust. Seriously works great.
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May 17, 2021 15:07
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Vindolanda posted:No idea about recommendations but Leo of Tally Ho (the least bad boat youtube channel) uses a lot of power planes, largely Makita corded ones I think. I use a Makita N1900B (moldy oldy) and it kicks super rear end. drat thing is unstoppable and really easy to change/sharpen blades on.
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May 17, 2021 15:38
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Corded angle grinders between 6 and 7.5 amps. Bosch or DeWalt? Ones I'm looking at are within $5 of each other in price.
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May 24, 2021 17:59
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I’d go with the dewalt because they are reliable and ubiquitous and I’m sure the Bosch has some overengineered whirlygig to change disks, where the deWalt one is easy and simple. This is in line with what I was thinking too. Also, the DeWalt is the one that's $5 cheaper so.... Pulling the trigger.
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May 24, 2021 19:32
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Motronic posted:Thank you for your helpful response on the tool thread. You're so brave to let us know how you feel about this issue. "What's the best mower for my eco lawn" would have been much more subtle.
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May 28, 2021 17:37
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To be fair, at this point you both seem like tools.
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May 29, 2021 00:40
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Heh.
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May 29, 2021 00:40
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Do you have a habitat for humanity restore near you. I can always seem to find good wrenches and sockets there.
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May 29, 2021 04:20
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The BIG socket wrenches are like 5 bucks and if you check there every now and then you can find some pretty nice stuff.
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May 29, 2021 04:21
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Rotten Cookies posted:I do but the few times I've been there I've never actually seen any tools. It's like 20 of the same countertops, doors, china cabinets, some buckets of spackle. Whoa. So, uh, I guess not then...
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May 29, 2021 04:43
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Rotten Cookies posted:It's also possible that they do get tools in, but that people snatch then up like vultures.  Oh yeah sorry about that.
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May 29, 2021 04:48
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Rotten Cookies posted:Wow, didn't know words could cause physical pain. A good pair of bolt cutters (fiskars $39.99) means you make your own policy. please don't do this
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May 29, 2021 21:56
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Here's perhaps a novel question: I am currently restoring some vintage tools. Nothing particularly fancy but valuable nonetheless once they look and operate beautifully. I don't give a poo poo about selling them, I have no use in my shop for them. Usually I'd just give them away in my local LAN thread but is there any good way to donate them to a neat organization or something? Like, do highschool shop teachers take donations? Is there some way to make a saw accessable to an inner-city youth???
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May 31, 2021 02:17
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Rotten Cookies posted:I'm sure local maker spaces would love free tools That's not a bad idea.
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May 31, 2021 02:53
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Rutibex posted:Public libraries will often have tools that people can borrow for a day and return. They would love some free ones if your local library is doing that. Boom another good idea.
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May 31, 2021 06:15
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F shop-vac brand shop-vacs. Unreliable, underpowered garbo. Thanks for reading my review.
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May 31, 2021 15:40
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CommonShore posted:What's this weird little hammer for Looks like a hammer for shaping metal sheet. I could be wrong of course but I've seen similar ones used for bashing out dents.
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Jun 5, 2021 02:19
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I don't want to like brag or anything but if anyone needs to test their stud finder.... *flex*
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Jun 23, 2021 01:47
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street doc posted:I want to move a lot of dirt around. Rent a bobcat? Buy an electric wheelbarrow?? Get the bobcat. The very best argument is this: YOU GET TO DRIVE THE BOBCAT It's a win-win.
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Jun 23, 2021 05:33
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If you need to do a lot of yardwork dear God buy into the Stihl combi-system. And this is from someone who absolutely hates the gently caress out of gas equipment.
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Jun 26, 2021 00:13
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corgski posted:Holy poo poo lmao. For anyone watching along, do not make this. Erase it from your memory entirely. It will kill you when you least expect it and it will hurt the entire time you are dying. Not just you. The reason so many municipalities say feeding your electrical this way is illegal is you can actually backfeed the grid so some unsuspecting lineman can get their face fried off as they work to fix power outages.
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Jun 26, 2021 18:26
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Trabant posted:They do look similar to what I remember seeing, but those strike me as low-powered leaf blowers. Does that sound powerful enough to push air through something like 50 feet of duct? One rated at 3A probably not. One rated at 10A is going to move a SHITLOAD of air. Like, a lot.
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Jun 28, 2021 15:16
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n0tqu1tesane posted:I'm not allowed to do handyman work for my wife's friends anymore though, since two of them have died shortly after I helped them out with a few things... This is why you let professionals handle asbestos abatement.
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Jun 29, 2021 05:06
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I. M. Gei posted:next week Well??? DISH!!
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Jun 30, 2021 05:36
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I. M. Gei posted:…… umm… next week is when I’ll have enough money to afford one Well, you could start with brand, model, how many amps it pulls, does it compound miter, come with a stand, does it have a laser. We WANT to know.
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Jun 30, 2021 05:45
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drat IT TELL ME ABOUT YOUR SAW YOU'RE GETTING drat IT
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Jun 30, 2021 05:46
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I. M. Gei posted:oh right, that OOooooo. Juicy choice. I've always been on Team Blue (makita) but the few dewalt tools I have in my shop are all awesome af.
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Jun 30, 2021 06:03
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Mr. Mambold posted:Swears are part of construction and woodworking in general, I've found. However, a tool that forces a habitual swear is *not* a good tool. It is, in fact, a goddamned bad tool. *kicks Ryobi belt sander over and over and over and over again*
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Jul 10, 2021 17:33
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stealie72 posted:So its not just me, right? It's impossible to keep the goddam belt on, right? No matter how light of a touch I take on that stupid yellow wing nut thing!!!!  Honestly I just needed a sander that day and wouldn't usually slum it like that but it was like $35 at the home Depot and welp.....
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Jul 10, 2021 17:47
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Deviant posted:and it's still the best drill, driver and leaf blower i've ever owned  I can't stop buying Makita tools.
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Jul 10, 2021 23:23
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El Jebus posted:As they say, "when in doubt, hammer it out". Also, when in need smoke some weed. Not tool related but still good advice.
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Jul 12, 2021 19:03
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