Thread: Well, Fancy That! A 14" Cold-Cut Saw from Ozito...

Thanks for the heads up BP.... something like that would be good for light use at school.

Cheers,

Chipman

Hmmm ... the only cold cut steel saws I have seen have been the slow speed, fluid cooled ones that they have at steel places. The Ozito one runs at 1300 rpm and at that speed, without cooling, I doubt the steel would remain cool for long.

Having said that though, it would still be a big improvement on the abrasive disk type saws.

Originally Posted by Batpig

One advantage of using a toothed blade (besides less heat damage and cleaner cutting), is that you can check the angle of your cuts beforehand by clamping and cutting up a piece of scrap pine in the thing (which you obviously can't do with an abrasive disc...

Didn't read the warning in the pdf did you. 'Don't cut wood, aluminium, magnesium'

Wonder how long the blade lasts?

As well as that saw, I noticed the ozito site mentions a steel cutting circular saw is coming. They are brilliant to use for cutting steel.

This is nothing new I have had a carbide steel cutting blade on my cut off saw for 3 or 4 years

China, what rpm is the cut off saw? Most of them use 3800rpm whereas the new style metal cutting saws are down around 1300rpm.

Dear Groggy,

It appears from the link to the Ozito website that the unit in question is indeed a 1300rpm'er.

The unfortunate thing is that there's also two 14" 3700rpm friction-type Cut-off Machines showing up on the same "New Tools" page at the BigO website that this bladed unit is appearing on, so I guess they're giving themselves enough lineup below it to not have to make the bladed one too cheap. I suppose it will probably therefore end up being $299 (mind you, that's a lot of money for an Ozito tool - and they'd know it - so $249 is also a possibility...)

Best Wishes,
Batpig.

My apologies. My question was for the saw that China has been using. I've changed the post to be clearer.

Groggy, yes mine is tthe higher speed type, I just replaced the friction blade, works fine for me, nice clean cuts, and it does not burn the metal as it is easy to do with a friction blade

I still love my Triton Metal Cutting saw with its limitations (only up to 50mm and only 90 and 45 degrees - I rarely need to cut anything else). One of the best $140 purchases I ever made (with spare blade I haven't had to use yet).

These can be especially vicious machines as can anything that cuts steel - not sure I'd be swapping a friction blade out for a tungsten steel cutter, but it's your risk I guess.

They were $329 at my local Green Shed today
Bit much for the occasional metal cutting I do

Bloss the blade is designed to replace a friction blade, it works just fine I estimate it has I would have used 8-9 friction blades during the time I have had it with only one sharpening

Hi China,
Do you recall where you got the replacement blade from and how much it was?

I purchased the blade from a local sharpening shop now closed is was around $50, I beleive they are still availiable at sharpening shops, I don't visit them very often as I handle 99% of my sharpening in house these days