This is the Evolution Fury 3S sliding mitre saw. This machine can cut
wood,metal or plastic with the supplied blade. It actually has a 300 millimeter depth of cut
which can cut on the slide. You can also do bevel cuts with this and
you can quite easily do mitre cuts with this.
This machine is aimed at the DIY market and it is approximately £100 pounds for this machine.
And I have to tell you at that price this machine is an absolute bargain.
For the home user this machine will do the majority of the jobs that
you will ever need to do at home. I've actually attached this machine to
the Evolution brackets because I will actually demonstrate this on the
Evolution leg stand but we're just going to take a look at some of the features
of the machine. You can mitre to 45 degrees in either direction which is
very useful. The machine also has a laser which can be switched on just on the top there.
The laser can be useful for some people although I have to admit I never
actually use the laser. We also have a movable fence at one side that's because
this machine bevels. We can bevel it in one direction only. If you undo the lever
at the back there you can actually bevel that over from zero to 45 degrees
for when you're doing longer mitre cuts. At the top there we have the
dust extraction port where you can put a bag to collect the dust if you're
cutting wood. Although I do have to admit that I prefer to put the vacuum cleaner on there,
or dust extraction unit that will remove a lot more of the dust.
We have a lock down pin which locks down the head which
makes it easier to transport. Also we have a depth stop which is very useful
if you need to do any trenching or any grooving, you can do that quite easily by
setting the blade depth using that. You can also quite easily activate and
deactivate that function just by flicking that lever out of the way.
The machine does come with a couple of material supports for if you are cutting
longer pieces of material. We also have replaceable brushes on this machine.
They can be undone quite easily with a slotted screwdriver.
Also we have a spindle lock you can press that in and that will lock the blade
whilst you change the blade. We also have this work clamp that can be moved to
either side of the machine. I think I've mentioned all the features of the
machine there we are now going to put this onto the leg stand hook it up to the
vacuum cleaner and we're going to cut some test pieces. This is a piece of 8 by
2 timber. This is the kind of thing you would use if you were doing a large
decking project at home. You will also notice that this is nail embedded. So I'm
going to do a very simple cut using this and we're just going to do what is
called a sliding cross cut.
So as you can see it's cut through that absolutely no problem at all it's
cut through it very quickly and very cleanly. A lot of people ask me if these
machines are accurate and if they can caught squarely? The answer to that is
yes although you may have to make a few adjustments when you get it because it
could have been knocked about during transit. But just to prove it to you that
is a square and you can see that that piece of material is completely square.
You would have absolutely no problem at all using that on any kind of job.
We are now going to cross cut a piece of ply wood, and will see just how well it cuts that.
This is virtually the maximum width of material that this machine can cut.
Again that has given us a nice clean cut. We're going to try cutting these two
pieces at 45 degrees now and we'll see what kind of joint we get once we have cut
them both at 45 degrees. This machine will only bevel in one direction so it will
mean that if you're cutting skirting boards you will need to swap the
workpiece the opposite way around.
So that is the two pieces that I have just cut on the bevel cut and you can
see that they actually match up perfectly.
Obviously this machine will cut decking boards for fun
It will also cut 4 x 2 for fun.
As well as cutting wood this machine can also cut aluminium and steel using
the same blade. We're now going to cut this piece of six mm aluminium
checker plate.
As you can see it cut through that absolutely no problem at all. I have to
say that these machines are one of the best machines you can actually use for
cutting aluminium at home. They really are very good at doing it. We have a tiny
burr there though that's just broke off. So it does give you an extremely clean cut on aluminium.
This machine will also cut steel the recommended maximum thickness
is three mm. Unfortunately I don't have any 3mm but I do have some
5mm so I'm just going to cut through this just to demonstrate how
versatile these machines are.
As you can see it's cut through that piece of mild steel absolutely no
problem at all and the metal is cold to the touch. If I had to pick a fault with this
machine I would say that the lead could do with been a little bit longer and
also it's not the most flexible of materials but apart from that tiny
point the machine is absolutely superb. Anybody that's doing any DIY is
looking for a sliding mitre saw you really cannot go wrong with one of these.
These are an absolutely fantastic machine for the money.
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