A year or so ago I found an 8 tooth carbide tipped, flat top blade and I used it to rip some old wood that might have nails in it. Needless to say this is the best rip blade I have ever used, I beats anything I have purchased in the last 20 years. I just ripped 2-1/4 thick hard maple on a Delta contractors saw and I could feed the stock as fast as I could push it. The blade creates no fine saw dust only small chips. It does a terrible job of cross cutting, a chain saw is as good. Why doesn’t some one make a blade like this one for ripping?????? This blade came with a 1965 Craftsman radial arm saw and it said it was for light metals and man made sheet goods so I never used it until recently, I would like to see some professional saw company evaluate such a saw blade. There are no cooling slots, just a plain 10″ diameter disc with 8 notches and eight carbide teeth welded on at each notch. Would certainly like to hear from some professional saw manufacturer on this post.
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It sounds like a slotting cutter which is designed for cutting deep narrow slots.
Steve
The plastic case the blade came in said it was for cutting thin non-ferrous metals and man made sheet goods. Cuts hardboard and massonite really well also.
I bought a new Leitz made 10" Delta Industrial 10 tooth ripper last summer. Most are 24T though.
Not an unusal blade at all I've been buying these for years. My sharpening suppliers has these.They are designed for the pallet industry. Flat topped grind is fro ripping. I can't imagine it would be for light metals or sheet goods. That would be a negative hook blade and more teeth. I've been cutting all knids of non-ferrous up to 2" thick brass for years.
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