by AJB Temple » 02 May 2021, 19:00
Yep. I think that's about right. Mine came from a retiring jeweller a while ago. It was his basic machine (he had much finer machinery than this, including a beautiful little lathe that I wish I had bought) and he gave me a massive box of all kinds of blades, from skip tooth to almost invisible tooth, some with pins, some not. It never breaks blades as he told me to just feed material in slow and steady. He said "like a virgin" but I have no idea what he meant.
The blower thing gets on my nerves. I just rig the extractor up in the pigeon loft and let it suck from beneath and one side. I know you are more relaxed about this, but when cutting materials like abalone, the dust obscures the line. They don't produce much dust though.
My son last used mine to cut out dozens of pieces for a drone he made. Moaned constantly that in his uni lab the CNC machine would be much faster
Don't like: wood, engines, electrickery, decorating, tiling, laying stone, plumbing, gardening or any kind of DIY. Not wild about spiders either.