If you are getting tightly curled, warm to the touch, shavings that are brown to black in color you are using too much down pressure or force on the bow of the saw. The color is the red flag here. If you visualize taking a torch to any piece of material and noticing the color changes it will give you a good idea as to what color to watch for in your shavings. Blue looking chips are from extreme heat with a high band saw speed and thin chips are from insufficient feed pressure… You will need to adjust your down feed and/or blade speed. With our saws you will be in a better position because we include a coolant system for every cold saw and band saw model. This will reduce the heat factor. A perfect cut and feed rate will give you evenly shaped, silver in color, spiraled curl. Kinda like how my spiral curling iron gives great curls… OH… That’s right you guys don’t use those things… Right?!
Sincerely,
Keri Tlachac
Sales Executive
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5 responses so far ↓
1 Jimbo // Dec 29, 2008 at 8:10 am
A common misconception of Cold Saws is …….
Cold saws do not leave a good finished cut or that a band saw can cut cleaner! Not true!!! When a quality cold saw is set up with the correct blade for the material and and appropriate down pressure the finish can be mirror and burr free. Now a band saw can achieve mirror finish cuts if the blade guides are as close to the material as possible, slow down feed rate, and correct tooth count will make the difference.
2 bob seetin // Jan 27, 2009 at 10:07 pm
heres a good one… I was cutting some solid steel stock on my cold saw and the blade cracked in half. Man talking about some strength in that saw!!
3 happy customer // Feb 3, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Our shop guys have the CS-275-SA and they love it for that reason also, they had a Dake cold saw and trashed it in no time (shop guys are rough) and the Baileigh saw is just built heavy enough for the real industry users. Thanks again Baileigh.
4 Aaron // Feb 23, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I have a cs-350sa. Its rated up to 4″ OD round tubing, cutting capability. I use nominal tubing that is actual 4.5″ OD. I have a hard time cutting all the way through it. Can a hair bigger blade be used to make up for it. In a bind! Whats the largest blade i could use without jepordizing safety?
5 Brennon // Apr 3, 2009 at 8:40 am
Arron The 14″ blade that comes with the saw is the largest blade that can be put on the CS-350SA. If you have any questions feel free to give me a call..
Brennon
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