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Appreciation post: that old carpenter at the Habitat ReStore who talked me out of buying a $60 miter saw
He just looked at me for a second and said 'son, that saw'll chew your fingers off before it cuts an inch straight,' and then walked me over to a used DeWalt for $80 that I still use three years later, so do you think the DIY community leans too hard on budget gear or is there a real line between cheap and dangerous?
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tyler_hernandez6d ago
People act like a cheap saw is gonna kill you.
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robinson.matthew5h ago
Have you ever actually used a cheap saw for any serious cutting though? lol I mean sure a $20 circular saw from Harbor Freight will cut wood but it's gonna bind up and burn the motor way faster than something decent. Plus the blades those come with are usually dull as hell straight out of the box. Safety wise I've seen cheap saws warp and kick back like crazy because the arbor isn't machined right. It's not that the tool itself is gonna explode, it's that it makes you work harder and that's when mistakes happen.
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