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   FastEddie | Oct 29, 2007 03:24pm | #1

   You can buy a carbide grit blade in HD and Lowes.  Sometimes you find it in the floor tile area.

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   JFink | Oct 29, 2007 04:55pm | #2

   They exist, the carbide teeth on the blades are tiny and hard to see, but the pacakge should say something like "fiberglass, cement board, and brick"  (who's cutting brick with a jigaW??)

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   DDay | Oct 29, 2007 05:11pm | #3

   If you have trouble locating some in the supply houses or HD/Lowes, Dewalt has a factory service center in Westwood off Rt 128 and Bosch has one down in that area too. They both stock a lot of the accessories, blades, etc. for their tools. Call ahead first but they should have them in stock. I know bosch makes a grit blade for cast iron that would work on the FC for a recip, I would assume they would have the same set up available for the jig saws.

   I've never used a jig saw on FC, I always assumed the dust would be terrible. I have the FC shears, and use them whenever possible. The times when I cannot use the shears, I use one of the cheap masonry blades for a circular saw and do the clean up in the corners with a utility knife or one of those little hand saws that use recip blades (use the fine tooth blades). The cheap hilti masonry blades for a circ are $2 or $3, the dust between each (jig vs circ) is probably similar but I think the circ's cut would be much better and much faster. The circ cuts very clean, almost sands as it cuts whereas I would think the jig saws cut would be much rougher.

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   mike4244 | Oct 29, 2007 05:54pm | #4

   Actually the dust is limited to a little bit on top of the cut,much less than a saw blade and it does not blow around like a skilsaw cut.

   mike

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   G80104 | Oct 29, 2007 05:59pm | #5

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