In the spirit of generous tips given on this board I would like to make a modest contribution

In my travels I came across this little gizmo. Its a tct saw blade which you can fit on a 4in angle grinder. IMHO its an incredibly useful tool, so easy to hold for simple wood sawing jobs, much easier than a dangerous heavy circular saw but of course it only cuts to a depth of 2in. I use mine often.

I only got a selection of blades out in the far east for 5quid each but see they are available on ebay now for about 7quid

Once youve had one you wonder how you managed before, My neighbour's always borrowing mine – Ill give him one for xmas

ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=tct+saw+blade+115mm&_sacat=0&_odkw=tct+saw+blade&_osacat=0&_from=R40

Important thing to note is the od is 115mm, the bore is usuall 20mm but you angle grinder normally uses 22,5mm so a little work on your ML7 to cut a little should on the clamp ring is need.

The blades need sharpening after a while especially if cutting chipboard so I got a small diamond sharpening blade which I will try out

See my gallery for pix

Cheers

Robin

Hi Guys

you have to put www. in front of the ebay url cos the board doesnt allow direct links from me yet

I admit the set up does look a bit hairy at first, but you take a firm grip on the handle and the body and move the saw along the workpiece ALWAYS going against the direction of the blade ie so that the blade is tending to pull away from you and you are cutting towards yourself. Any jamming tendency will pull away from you. The small blade is a lot less brutal than a 10" heavy circular saw. Ive used this without any runaway problems for many years, I can even use it one handed, but not recommended. And of course you have to keep your hand on the button to keep it going. I wouldnt ever recommend using it with the type of grinder where you can switch on and leave running without thumb pressure on the switch.

Ive had far more dangerous kick backs and blade jamming from a circular saw – I hate using them

Just dont cut through the cable, make sure on a long cut that the cable wont become caught

and of course, as with a circular saw, never place any part of your body in line with the saw blade

Well thats my take

Robin

Other people do it, but notice that he is using a grinder with a fixed switch rather than a thumb pressure swithc. I dont recommend that.

Notcie the mistakes being made here

two mistakes

a) he let the cutter run back on itself ie cutting in the climb cut mode – this is potentially unstable

b) he let the axis of the cutter go below the work piece, also potentially unstable, just like a chain saw, it can kick back, dont do it.

Its really not rocket science

dont ever do a climb cut.

Robin