Mike Builds A Workshop: Tool Review of Mag 77 Skilsaw
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- With lumber prices skyrocketing, Mike Csele sets about building a workshop himself. In this special tool review, Mike purchases his first worm drive circular saw from Skilsaw and explains the pros and cons of it.
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I've been around carpenters and construction workers my entire life, I was born in 1986. I had never seen a worm drive saw until TH-cam. The first blade left saw I had was a cordless 18v DeWalt 6-1/2". Then I found out it was because I was in the Eastern U.S. and the sidewinder was just standard in Pennsylvania. Great Video!
Your attention to detail is incredible! I’m learning something new every two minutes hahah
Thanks .... probably way to detail oriented. I overthink everything ... that is one reason it takes me forever to do anything.
@@xtalvt same here dude haha, for real I live close by and I’m genuinely interested in giving you a hand in my free time! Not sure what your final goal is for this project but doesn’t matter to me! I’d like to help and learn more about the way you work,
Great choice 👌, my skills saw has a metal handle and trigger and is around 30 years old and has been ran hard but unfortunately the windings burnt up and I am going to get the saw you have for Father's day in a few weeks. I am excited because I hate waiting on my dewalt battery's to charge and there is just something about the worm drive that I love.
I have very very few battery operated tools. My issue is that the batteries only last a few years. Then the cost of the new batteries is more than I paid for the tool! Except for a driver that I like to take up on a ladder, I just stick to corded tools.
Ebay it for parts since someone else will have the repair piece, or experiment and repair it for a spare. I do that often and have backup tools cheap.
Great review. I feel like the worm drive let’s you see what your cutting a little better, in my opinion and experience.
Dude, do you want 2 parrallels or 3? Free handed my whole career never found myself bound by a base plate parrallel to blade..
Hikoki ie Hitachi make a blade right 7 1/4" corded saw with an adjustable base for perfect blade and base parallel alignment, I have one it is an excellent feature .As regards blade right saws I only buy blade right saws with a good clear view on both sides of cut line ie Makita and Hikoki corded saws and Dewalt corded and cordless .All my saws had perfect blade and base alignment from out of the box .I am a right handed carpenter and find blade left saws very awkward especially doing bevelled mitre cuts on short timber and you get covered in dust ,so I only use blade right saws .
Thanks for the comments! I am also right handed. After several months, I find I like the power of my old saw but it is still hard to make a perfect cut. For precision work I still grab my old saw ... maybe that will change in time. I have never herd of Hikoki. I just pulled up their catalog. WOW .. lots to look at. We do have Hitachi but most stores only carry one or two of their models. The ones I can get did not have an adjustable base. I do see the C 6MEY has one ... I will have to look int this. Thanks!
What model do you have? I am guessing the 7 1/4" = 185mm ? I only see a few 185mm models and non have an adjustable plate. I see several 190mm models that have "parallel adjustment system" .. maybe a 7 1/4" blade will fit these? Interesting ... many have a Riving Knife. I have never seen this on a hand saw, only on a table saw. I am guessing this is a European safety requirement? ..... Sorry, just add more ... I just checked with the company. Only the C7SC3 and C7UR are listed as 7 1/4" .... neither has the adjustment for parallelism. Thinking back, this is why I passed these over then I was looking last year (they were sold locally under the Hitachi name).
@@xtalvt Gidday mate, the Hikoki saw model is C7MFA and the Makita is 5806b and the Dewalt is a cordless model # DCS 575 they are all 7 1/4" ie 185mm.Being a builder and carpenter for the last 30 years and cut accuracy is very important to me and I am very fussy about circular saws.Btw I also have a Makita 9 1/4" corded saw for heavy work.Regards from down under .
@@interman7715 Thanks again so much! I will look into these! I am a machinist by trade ... pretending to be a carpenter. This project is driving me nuts. Metal is stable. I hate wood swelling when it is wet .... shrinking as it drys. Plus I am being way to accurate. In 60 ft, my wall is only out 1/16" .... but that also means it takes me forever to build. But the building is getting done ... snow has melted and I an working on the second (attic) floor. Thanks again !!!
Woah sawcat? Never knew about that! Where do you think I could find one
It is actually amazing how many of these older tools are still around. There is a video where the guy shows how well the brake on this saw works compared to the new ones. I checked and I can even still get parts like brushes and bearings for this 30 year old saw! There are some out there on ebay but I could never justify paying the prices they are asking ($100 - $200) for a saw that old!
@@xtalvt I’m always interested in how well the older tools still work, lost relics if you will
Forget the tools and invest in a wind sock.
Wind ....hmmmm ... it is now January and I am still building. -7 temps (-30 with the wind chill). We had gusts of up to 50 mph ... not fun when you are scaffolding! Even my nail gun froze and refused to fire.
Nobody came here to hear about your worn out Sawcat dawg.