There have been a couple posts recently on hypoids and worm drive saws. Which in turn raises a question I have.
For worms and hypoids and leftblade sidewinders, for those of you who use them do you place the motor weight over the keep side of the cut or over the cutoff, are you adamant about doing so or have you trained your hand/arm to control the weight of the saw on the small side of the shoe.
The reason I am asking we don’t do a lot of framing so I thought I would ask everyday saw users. I have some left blade saws and I try try to place the weight on the keep side of the cut. Mostly I use the boss’s saw which is right blade so its not as much of an issue. He gets on me though if I try to use my left blade saws for any cuts so… When I am building something I cut the way I want but working with him, if I don’t cut it the way he wants it is screwed up.
Example making a ridge plumb cut on a rafter with a left blade saw. Start at the corner of the 2 by placing the motor weight on the keep side or come around the opposite way placing the motor weight on the scrap but giving a better spot to start the cut?
Webby
Edited 4/22/2009 3:30 pm ET by webby
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9 out of 10 times the weight of my worm is on the cutoff portion.
No hard and fast rules (unlike your boss).....but that's the way I do it.
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I'd guess most of the time I have the weight of the saw on the side of the drop when I'm using a worm drive. But after awhile... it really doesn't matter anyway. I cut left handed, right handed, with worms, with sidewinders... whatever is closest and easiest.
BTW.... tell your boss to stop standing on your dick. What's up with that man?
Hahahahahahahahah!!!! Excellent phrasing man, I love it. That made my day!!
He is just old fashioned always used a right blade, and never a worm. However we are building some decks... been raining, and the lumber is wet, going to take my hypoid 2morrow and see how it does cutting joists to length.
Webby
Edited 4/22/2009 7:46 pm ET by webby
When I am building something I cut the way I want but working with him, if I don't cut it the way he wants it is screwed up.
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Oh... and I also use the left side blade, waste is usually to the right. But I don't give it a second thought if the waste is on the left, since I know my curf and can split that pencil line either way.
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Thanks everyone for the opinnions. I tend to cut whatever way too, but I am going along to get along.
Just curious to hear the techniques of others.
Thanks alot!Webby
Your boss probably doesn't use the blade left saw enough to understand that it's possible to make the cuts from the "wrong" side and not cause a violent binding action.
The only way I can use a blade left saw is to cut with my left hand LOL. I guess after 35 years with a blade right, things just aint gonna change too fast for me.
I probably would have liked a blade left saw when I needed to back my saw into some mitres on a cut and mitred stringer LOL.
Forgive me if I'm having a spacy spatial relations moment, but if you flipped the rafter over, couldn't you have the weight on the keep side and cut from the meat?
And, to answer your question, I cut all kinds of ways (with a left-blade Bosch worm). For me I do like to keep the motor on the supported side if the cut needs to be semi-perfect; the saw doesn't want to roll at the end of the cut that way. For 90% of the cuts though, it don't matter.
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