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Want something for slicing timber for various garden/diy jobs. Spent a lot of time hand cutting timber on the latest project and it's probably added a day or so to the job vs. power chopping.
I want something that will handle 150*50 timber and do angled cuts.
Found the below
If anyone has a better suggestion including a double bevel option would be pleased to hear it.
Would like to keep it close to £100 but can slip over a bit for features/quality.
Think that's the one I have, it's been doing fine once adjusted for proper square. The blades cut metal nicely too.
Have a look on evolution's website, they have a refurbished section - mine came from there and looks to have been used for a couple of cuts only, you may get the larger size one within budget which would be better for material of that size.
I've got that one. Does a good job oh architrave and general DIY. I got mine from their outlet store on eBay along with a matching circular saw which is also very good. seller is called evooutlet
Thanks both. 🙂
Old Dewalt / Elu radial saw 2nd from eBay - far more usefull and accurate than a cheap mitre saw for similar money
I have the Wickes version of that Screwfix one - similar comments, same price, including the need to adjust it to cut properly square.
I had a cheap one (£40) before the Revolution and the difference is massive. It's definitely a step up.
There's a slight flex in it which means you can be out 1-degree if you aren't consistent with the way you hold it, but I honestly think it's a bargain.
I've had mine 4 years now and it's still smooth. I even used it to cut all the aluminium profiles for my polycarb roof.
It does need adjustment, but all the adjustments are easy and reliable, but to be fair, even my Makita track saw needed adjustment out of the box. Always best to regularly check your tools for square anyway really.
I've got the big brother ...with double bevel.... (in addition to the smallest Mitre one which I got for £99 with circular originally from Screwfix).
As others, I bought on the ebay outlet store ...
+ve's Cuts really big stuff up to railway sleepers.... with diamond blade cuts through hardened industrial grade tiles ... you can flip the bezel... as well for architraves etc. and its a bit more accurate to set...than the little brother ... but it gets a lot of use ...
-ve's It costs more and it requires more space especially to slide forwards backwards....
Old Dewalt / Elu radial saw 2nd from eBay - far more usefull and accurate than a cheap mitre saw for similar money
They take up a shitload of space though and you have to pretty much have them set up permanently - great if you've got a workshop but for most DIY applications people don't. For the find of work people do around the house they'd be better taking the saw to the room they're working in than carrying jobs back and forward between the house and the garage. They're slow to set up too - fine if you want to make multiple cuts all at the same angle but you waste a lot of time resetting compared to a regular mitre saw. Being infinitely adjustable also means theres infinite opportunity to be out of adjustment. 🙂
Dirty too - very poor for extraction.
On the plus side - you can pretty much always sell them for what you bought them for. So once the novelty wears off and you want the space back they're effectively been free to own. 🙂
Oh - talking about extraction. I don't know how other saws perform, but now I've got a shop vac, the Screwfix is fairly poor, at least in comparison to my sander, track saw and jigsaw.
Still sprays sawdust all over the place. I tend to use it outside whenever possible.
You kind of need to build custom extraction 'hoppers' for chop saws but it's the type of tool that is more difficult to extract efficiently due to the adjustability etc.
Much more difficult if you have the type that crosscuts on a rail too.
Oh - talking about extraction. I don't know how other saws perform, but now I've got a shop vac, the Screwfix is fairly poor, at least in comparison to my sander, track saw and jigsaw.
Still sprays sawdust all over the place. I tend to use it outside whenever possible.
Even my Festool Kapex / Cleantec combo isn't that good at dust extraction, way better than my previous bargain basement chop saw, but not as good as I was expecting. Still have to clean up the whole bench after using it. Small stuff into the air is minimised, but a lot gets sprayed out to the back/sides.
Might work better if I upgrade to a 50mm hose.
ok - good to know it's not just this saw 🙂
It's hard to get the area around the blade covered to force the suction to hit the right area I guess (in comparison to a track saw).
How well you can extract from chop saws seems to vary by make and model. It helps if the dust coming off the blade is at least heading in the direction of the extraction port to begin with.
I've got a little Evolution saw thats mainly used for steel cutting but whatever you cut with it the debris goes nowhere near the port - attaching an extractor would achieve nowt. By comparison I've got a dewalt DW713 which fires the dust straight at the port - so it works really well with a vacuum attached but when my extractor was on the wonk just attaching the hose and sitting it in a box meant and good proportion of the dust was still hitting the port and being collected in the box
What you won't get with any chop saw is 100% extraction but if port is designed well the extractor should be able to catch the lightest dust that would otherwise be floating round the room - bigger particles have too much momentum so unless they are heading the direction of the extractor to begin with the vacuum won't catch them. But those bits will for the most part just land on the floor behind the saw rather than float all round the room.
What can make a big difference though is the orientation of the wood you're cutting - if the extractor isn't catching much try standing the wood up against the fence rather than flat on the base (or vice versa) it can change the direction the debris is heading and effect how much of it the extractor manages to catch. It seems to make the biggest difference if you're cutting bits of MDF - one orientation can throw dust everywhere and the other can be pretty clean.
Interesting video comparing some top end mitre saws re dust collection..
Skip to 3:47 for dust...
Interesting video comparing some top end mitre saws re dust collection..
Its interesting that at first glance they look near identical in the design of the dust extraction but one works and one just doesn't. Looking closer though the festool is extracting from all around the blade guard, not just from the port that the reviewer has added to flaps to.
I've an Aldi one, from one of their offers some years ago. It works well enough.
Cheers all. Not too worried about the dust so long as I don't get a face full as it will be used exclusively outdoors.
I have a couple of weeks to find something so might check out a few options from the above.