welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today I'm going to review a new tool that I purchased the
Milwaukee bandsaw and I'm going to show some of the features why I bought it but the tighten the
truth the reason why I bought this is because I was only looking at two manufacturers Dewalt
and Milwaukee as you could see in the background here I have Milwaukee and I have Dewalt and I've
had good service out of them so either one didn't make a difference to me good buddy mine said you
know what just go whatever you got the best price from and I got the best price from Milwaukee and I
also ordered two of the Milwaukee blades and I'd recommend everybody read the instructions before
you actually use this and learn how to put the blade on it's very simple if I can do it anybody
can do it I pick two blades ten to ten teeth per inch and fourteen and this one here I put the 14
tutorial set I'm cutting and it shows you in the guide exactly what is the preferred blade pitch
for your particular material that you're cutting so that was the first cuts that I've ever done on
that I've never had one of these before and I'll show you some of the features that I really like
okay first of all it does have a switch here to turn the light off and on and there's a light in
here an LED light right in the head here itself and I like that feature too there's also a thumb
wheel here and you could adjust that back and forth and you get variable speeds and the trigger
itself is variable now as for the weight a lot of people are wondering how heavy is this well
you know what if I wasn't heavy you'd have to push down on the material to get it to cut I find the
weight is terrific it's very well balanced and I look like I had lots of YouTube videos prior
to buying this the biggest concern that I had was does it cut straight how do you know by the blade
here hold straight you're cutting down well I'll show you the cut off pieces here first so this
one here is the first cut and you see the slag on the outside there this was originally cut with an
abrasive disc and this one here CL Smooth that is bur free really nice but if you take a good look
at that that's not cut that straight okay here's the second cut and it's a lot straighter now isn't
it and this one here so yeah it's not that hard to get it straight you just takes a couple of
cuts to get used to it and it's as straight as I would need because most of the time when I'm
cutting something up like that I'm welding it to something right most of the time anyways but so
far I like it just a small little time I've had it's very easy to put the blade on I mean just
to undo this here the wheels come in put the blade on inside the guide rollers goes on you tighten it
up and that's it it's very easy it's not hard and the main selling point behind a lot of products is
the price point and the warranty this comes with a five year warranty I like that and you can get
all kinds of aftermarket cutting blades for it if you like now I put I picked these up at the
place that I bought for ten dollars a piece and that was a pretty smoking deal compared to what
I've seen online on other places and it comes in this blow molded case which is terrific and
it has a really good decent cord on it and I like always to see a three prong plug because
a lot of power tools have two prongs and they seem to disconnect a lot easier and they kind
of just kind of come out of the outlet a little bit there and shut off on you it doesn't have
the same tension as three so I do like the three prong but overall I look forward to using this in
the future and when you're looking at a review from somebody that's showing a power tool like
this you know I would tell everybody you don't need this tool I bought this because it's another
tool that I just wanted I have a plasma cutter I have a chop saw I have reciprocating saw and
you know I could use various things to cut a piece of steel or if you want wood and a lot
of people have actually made nice stand up mounts for these so you can have your hands independent
for cutting various pieces of wood or steel yourself and I think that's a great idea and
I may build one in the future myself but when you're looking at a review on YouTube and you're
thinking to yourself like should I get one of these well if you have other alternatives you
know what this is a great tool to have I like it I'm going to use this a lot but in reality unless
you're using it to cut a lot of steel or a lot of wood or you know you have a specific purpose for
it now you don't really need this I'm not trying to sell anybody anything on my channel just that
I wanted to get it myself I like the idea the compactness and I've seen a couple my friends
on their YouTube channels when they're building and fabricating things they've been using this
and it looks like a great alternative to having well my chop saw my chop saw yeah it does great
but I always got that slag edge on the outside that's not cut so nice this is going to be a
real upgrade and if you have any questions about the tool let me know and I'll try and answer them
the best I can but when I review something on my products on my channel its products that I
bought myself I get my own honest review and I'll update you in the future of what I think
about this long term but so far I like it you haven't seen this channel before you're welcome
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