bandsaw blade

[wallace]

Hi all, I need a new blade for my startrite 252. could some one tell me the differance between carbon steel blades and bi-metal, apart from the bi-metal being twice the price. I use my saw for preparing logs for the lathe and sometimes I cut non ferrous metals. What TPI would people recomend. Are Trucut blades the beez neez?
Thanks Mark

 

[Pvt_Ryan]

Takl to Ian at tuffsaws: http://www.tuffsaws.co.uk/

 

[Blister]

Carbon steel are Nissan micra of saw blades

M42 are the Ferrari of saw blades ( reputedly last 10 times linger )

Ian is your man :wink:

 

[wallace]

thanks chaps, that was the company I was thinking of.
Mark

 

[Lowlife]

We use both at work, the cheaper blades often break well before they become too blunt to use, sometimes within a day or two of fitting. The bi-metal ones last a lot longer, they rarely break and almost always blunt first, they are expensive though.

We're currently trying a few different suppliers for carbon steel blades to see if we can find a better one, a neighbouring workshop reports better results with Axminster blades so I've ordered a few of theirs, and I'm also going to try the company that Workshop Heaven uses, both are about the same price as our current supplier.