Cutting Siding With Mitre Saw

Install a plywood blade backward onto a circular saw.

Cutting siding with mitre saw.

The one blade we d recommend you use to definitely cut non ferrous metals with your miter saw is the freud lu77m012 d1296l 12 inch blade with 96 teeth and a 1 inch arbor. It saved me countless hours of work. Once again this contributes to giving the vinyl siding a clean cut. Lay the vinyl siding on a flat table or workbench.

These include miter saws chop saws table saws and handheld circular saws. Then retract the blade guard to start the bevel cut. Release it as soon as the blade is fully engaged in the wood. Mark the area to cut and slowly feed the blade into the siding.

Failing to do this can result in your circular saw cutting into the workbench or table beneath the siding itself. If the motor housing on your saw is open and could collect metal chips tape a piece of cloth over the openings to protect the motor windings and bearings while you cut. With today s sliding miter saws bringing the saw out to the front edge of the board and making the cut as the saw goes back towards home the saw teeth do not have the climbing engagement with the wood. The climbing phenomenon is defeated.

Cut aluminum with your miter saw making accurate cuts on aluminum rods tubes and angles is easy with a miter saw and a blade designed to cut nonferrous metal check the label. The blade features an ultra thin laser cut kerf and a non stick silver ice coating that protects blade from heat gumming and corrosion. Best 12 metal cutting blade. I show you a simple wooden jig i built myself to cut new aluminum soffit.

You should position the siding so that the cutting line is hanging off the edge for obvious reasons.