i'm not really worried about the 'angle finder' on the saw to be great. i can do as you described and mark it myself and just line up the blade with the line.

what i do want is the clamp to work decently and the blade to cut straight down.

we used chris's HF saw and the thing would just not cut straight down, leaving us with some weird compound angle. i will not get a HF chop saw.

 

I always mark and cut anyway...just the way we do it at the fab shop anyway, as you can't always trust the power tools to be "trued" and better to mark it yourself so you know it is "trued" before you screw something up and not after.

I got my Milwaukee on sale and it'll cut up a whole stick of rect tubing into a bazillion slider adapters on one 14" disc...and that is a lot of cutting.

Clamp works great...spend the money, get a decent, quality tool IMO.

Nothing against anyone who does do HF, but I personally won't own anything from Harbor Freight, cheapo tools are just that...cheapo.

 

WORD.

When I first went into the construction trades I spent way too much money on cheap tools. I found that you really do get what you pay for. Spend the extra coin, and you won't regret it.

 

After years of using chop saws I got a band saw from Harbor Freight and will never go back! Smooth, quiet, no flying sparks, you set it up, turn it on do something else and it turns it's self off when done with the cut.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=37151

 

man that's pretty cool, but theres no way i have room for that now...

sounds like a good future tool though.

 

hmmmm.

I hate harbor frieght. So tempting!

 

and where exactly do you think you are going to put that??

 

It's not that big, you could leave the legs off and use it on the floor or on a bench?

 

Arg.

I really need to focus on shedding some things right now. Definatly can't get that now. But garret... Tim will only work at HF for a little while longer...

 

happy birfday to me...





best part...came with a rebate for a FREE DeWalt grinder ($90 value!)

of course, i wont get that grinder for like 2 months cause rebates take FOREVER...but at least its free...

 

 

Good buy. Now go get busy on the bumper