I would guess that the biggest your machine will accommodate after consideration of what you really expect to cut, or spend.

Holders are available from the sellers on the right side of your screen. You pays your money and get the quality you pay for.

He won't need a multi fit arbor. He's only buying one saw.

I use a 3mt 22mm long arbor. The only problem I have sometimes is the size of the lock nut it prevents getting in close sometimes because it fouls the vice. I would make a plain shaft holder with a cap screw clamp this will allow to get closer over vice jaws. At the moment I am going to make a 1" adaptor for my existing arbor and use it as a cut off saw on the lathe.

Depends what you are doing with it, if you want a specific width cut then that will dictate what thickness blade you need.

If its just to cut off bits of metal then say 1/16" which won't flex too much.

36T will be OK unless cutting very thin material as I said above, the lower tooth count will allow the chips to be cleared easier on aluminium.

75-100Teeth

Just one thing before you buy, if you prefer to work in metric then a 22mm dia arbor will be a better bet as the metric width blades tend to have a 22mm bore

Edited By JasonB on 28/04/2017 20:11:47

Metric 100mm dia x 22mm bore are available, if you need to cut say a 1mm wide slot then you will need a metric cutter, if just chopping up bits of metal then it does not matter what you use. see pages 506 & 507 for metric saws in coarse and fine.

As I said earlier the ones with a locking nut mean you can't get the cut as close to the vice which means nore work sticking out or if small parts you just can't cut them. Yoy can see in Andrew's photo that if he went nearer the vice there would be a risk of the nut hitting the jaws if he moves in the Y direction too. Go for the CSK screw fixing. An Allen key will get it plenty tight enoungh, better to have the saw slip if things jam up rather than have the blade burst.

Hi Dave,

If you want to save some pennies – then making your own saw arbor (from a blank taper) is a fairy easy job and you could probably then afford to have one of each – both imperial and a metric (1"/22mm). You don't mention your lathe but a saw arbor for the lathe is also very handy too…

You can buy blank R8 arbors from Chronos I believe. Mine have an additional lump of mild steel loctited onto the blank end and then the required 'hole' diameter is bored out. A 'top-hat' (with the saw fitted) slides into this hole and is secured with a screw. This enables various thicknesses of saw to be fitted, albeit with the same hole diameter. I know imported tools are cheap but buying ready made stuff all the time can mount up. My saw arbors are all MT1 or MT2 to fit my lathe/mill tapers…but no reason you can't do this for R8.

Regards,

IanT

I made a very simple stepped adapror to allow me to fit 22mm bore cutters onto my 1" arbor, will post a pic later.