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The finest hacksaw blades available

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Carbon steel import blade... with the "handle" silkscreened on the wrong end of the blade. He actually had the teeth facing backwards because of the marking on the blade.

I was out at my buddies shop this weekend cutting an A pillar out of a car with one of these fine blades. Got about 2/3 rds of the way done with one cut and had destroyed most of the teeth. Grabbed another, finished the first cut and the second with its relative the bimetal blade. Ordered up some Lennox bimetal blades for him.
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Bentworker wrote:IMG_1685.JPG

Carbon steel import blade... with the "handle" silkscreened on the wrong end of the blade. He actually had the teeth facing backwards because of the marking on the blade.

I was out at my buddies shop this weekend cutting an A pillar out of a car with one of these fine blades. Got about 2/3 rds of the way done with one cut and had destroyed most of the teeth. Grabbed another, finished the first cut and the second with its relative the bimetal blade. Ordered up some Lennox bimetal blades for him.
From which part of the world did that blade get shipped? :D
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Nice! :O
I don't get through a huge quantity of hacksaw blades any more but I keep a stock of Sandvik Bimetal blades in 32 and 24 tpi in the workshop, you can bend them and hammer them straight again several times before they fail ;-)
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PERHAPS it is for pvc pipe to cut on the pull stroke
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Next hacksaw blades for me to try are Bahco. I have been using Bahco blades in my body saw and they are incredible.

China is where the blue blades came from, you can see the "A" in the photo, I like the pvc pull saw idea. He probably has a dozen of them stashed away in his toolbox at the shop. I need to place them in the steel recycle bin... But I am not sure they are actually steel
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hammermill wrote:PERHAPS it is for pvc pipe to cut on the pull stroke
Most often used a Swede saw for PVC. Lot faster.

Hacksaw blades ....Sandvik, and Nicholson.
Then....there's those Horror Freight things. Either made of a steel-peanut/butter alloy, or....just peanut brittle. Never know what you are going to get.

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That blade was made for Chinese cars. They're much easier to cut.
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SteveHGraham wrote:That blade was made for Chinese cars. They're much easier to cut.

That explains it.
It was a Mustang that I was cutting apart (about half rust).
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Bentworker wrote:
SteveHGraham wrote:That blade was made for Chinese cars. They're much easier to cut.

That explains it.
It was a Mustang that I was cutting apart (about half rust).

A Rustang maybe?

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Bentworker wrote:
SteveHGraham wrote:That blade was made for Chinese cars. They're much easier to cut.
That explains it.
It was a Mustang that I was cutting apart (about half rust).
Yeah, but it was American rust, which is stronger than Chinese rust. :lol:
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warmstrong1955 wrote:
Bentworker wrote:
SteveHGraham wrote:That blade was made for Chinese cars. They're much easier to cut.
That explains it.
It was a Mustang that I was cutting apart (about half rust).
A Rustang maybe? :)
Made by the same company that made the Dedsel and the Pop-Goes-The-Pinto.
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BigDumbDinosaur wrote: Made by the same company that made the Dedsel and the Pop-Goes-The-Pinto.
One of the best bumper stickers I ever saw was on a Pinto.
I stopped behind one at a traffic-light in Tucson.
Bumper sticker said: "Don't Follow Too Close. Pintos Blow Up"

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