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    Angry breaking blades

    well other than the double post
    I now find the makita is breaking blades too easily I've tried slow speeds' high speeds less tension' more tension ????????? have I bought a pup?
    On the gmc I have managed to break two blades in 6 months and they were when I first got it.
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    Could be any number of things and just to get you started:
    Pushing work sideways (not always aware that you are doingit, let the piece go and see if it centres), feed rate too fast, hard timber and too fast feed rate, wrong blade for timber, crappy blade (whose blades are you using?), heads out of alignment (put a piece of white card behind the blade, if the blade looks blurry while running may nee to be adjusted).
    Blades do break and you could just be having a bad run, I've gone for days on one blade then had 4 or 5 snap in an hour.
    For a cheap source of blades have a look at www.mikesworkshop.com I buy my blades from him and he charges $1.00 extra to ship OS orders.
    Place an order and fax your credit card details and you will have them in a week.
    Good blades and like I said, just an extra US$1.00, thats for the whole order, not per batch of blades.
    Hope this helps.

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