Hello Gentlemen,
Thank you all for your replies concerning the cutting stroke of power hacksaws. It has been quite interesting.
Firstly, may I give my apologies for stuffing-up the sending of the original email. It just took off before I had finished the contents. Still don't know what happened.
I am not a formally trained engineering person, so have had to find things out along the way. Hence a question,
the answer of which, may seem so obvious to others. Thank you all for your various points of view.
An observation was made that a power hacksaw may be outdated and a metal-cutting bandsaw would be a better proposition. I agree, if I was initially equipping my workshop. However I already have a power hacksaw which does a fine job and when the blades are beyond useful life, they are recycled into all manner of cutting tools.
My best wishes,
Jim Crawford
Perth, Western Australia.