Decent hacksaw blades

[DiogenesIIParticipant @diogenesii]

Posted by Mike Poole on 16/11/2021 20:06:21:

… Lube can be useful but can make a mess and stick the swarf to everything…

Mike

A rub on the blade with a candle or timber / tyre crayon works well on steel and aluminium..

[Sam StonesParticipant @samstones42903]

Rob, I have been tempted to regurgitate an eleven-year-old thread I opened back in November of 2010. I called it ‘Over the counter’.

It wasn’t about 12" hacksaw blades but primarily, the 6" (150mm) type known as 'Junior' hacksaw blades. I bought the blades at one of the major hardware stores known throughout in Australia.

You can, if you wish find the thread here – **LINK**

Unfortunately, the images did not appear and my initial post was largely incoherent. Not until August 2017 when (for some odd reason), the thread was revived did I discover that the photo (this one)

was missing.

For convenience, here’s the second (2017) page of the thread – **LINK**

Buyer beware!

Cheers,

Sam

PS I can't remember the original Latin expression, but someone will

Edited By Sam Stones on 16/11/2021 21:08:03

[oldveloParticipant @oldvelo]

My recomendation is for the Swedish Bahco Hand Hacksaw Blades that I use on a power hacksaw that I have been useing for around ten years on various metals with very good performance.

Many of the blades for various manufacturers were tried and non performed as well as Bahco Brand.

Using handsaw blades in a power hacksaw is about as hard a punishment you can deal out to the blade with weight up to 5 kgs extra on the frame.

A clip on You Tube of the prototype that has been improved with a variable speed DC motor and the drip feed uses a mixture of 50/50 cutting oil and kerosine.

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