them to do for my work and that is to cut thick aluminum stock like this which
great job cutting thin material like quarter inch aluminum and steel
DIN rail. You can actually feed this all quicker than I am here. I wasn't sure how
it would handle the DIN raill on edge like this. The cuts are pretty burr free.
A little light filing is all that's needed and certainly a cleaner cut then
abrasive chops saws gives. Where these saws really excel is making quick
square cuts in to material like this aluminum angle. The cut is clean and
nearly burr free. The Evolution saw let's thin material like this steel stock be
clamped without any support. The DeWalt saw needs some backing material for thin
clamp and fence of the Evolution saw and as the clamp is tightened it actually
lifts itself and the material off of the bed. And this might not be a big deal, you
just have to be aware of it because it can affect the squareness. Because the
faces of the clamp and fence are parallel on the Evolution saw a V-groove
plate is installed onto the clamp which pushes the round stock into the fence
has an angled face on the clamp and doesn't require any additional hardware
piece of 1215 steel. It takes about a minute to cut on the DeWalt saw and
a nice thing about these saws is once the piece is off it's cold
and unlike abrasive blades there is no dust and sparks. If cutting long material
with, which has no trouble cutting through even thicker material. The
Evolution Rage2 blade, barely a quarter into the material, is already showing
facing lobes might be a way of limiting the feed rate into the material but the
blade has half the number of teeth so maximum feed rate is also half. Compare
that to the DeWalt blade which is a much more wicked looking blade: more teeth,
Evolution Rage2 blade, included with the Rage2 saw, and this is the DeWalt blade
included with the DeWalt MultiCutter. Because of the additional teeth there are
more chips but the chips are also longer and there is no problem with chip
packing. To minimize the number of teeth engage with the stock, this (vertical) is the
recommended orientation. Because of the blade guard design a lot of the chips on
the Rage2 saw are carried around the guard and ejected out the front.
The DeWalt saw is much more successful throwing the chips out the back. This is
a quick and dirty comparison between horizontal and vertical orientation of
the stock and its effect on cutting speed. The downward pressure that I apply
is mainly dependent upon the sound and the feel of the saw and any one who's
operated us all like this will understand. And that is to say that I'm
trying to be consistent with my use of the saw instead of consistent with the
exact pressure that I'm applying. So, again this comparison is completely
unscientific, but I think it's pretty fair to say that the vertical
orientation, if you can do it, will result in a faster cut. Okay, so after checking
to make certain all the teeth are cleared of packed aluminum chips, I'm
going to make the same cut that just took about 20 seconds on the DeWalt saw using
the Rage2 saw. Because of the design of the Rage2 blade, with half of the
lobes having teeth and the other half not, we might expect the Rage2 saw to
take roughly twice as long as the DeWalt saw. The saw is shuttering quite a bit
now and there are few chips being thrown out the front of the saw, so I'm pretty
sure that all the teeth are packed with aluminum now. And that was the circuit
saw is $220, and a new blade to make it useful with
aluminum is a $107, and the Evolution EvoSaw380 which
seems to address some of the problems with the Rage2 saw is $379.
purchase price, we're close to the cost of the EvoSaw380 and that saw has the nicest
budgeting for a bandsaw because small cuts like these are not going to be