Model Engineers’ Workshop – July 2019

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Sliding Chop Saw

Background
I have many machines and tools in my
workshop and a large proportion of them
are “shop made”. Whilst I have a metal-
cutting horizontal bandsaw, I oft en fi nd
that it will not cope with some of the metal
cutting jobs that are required. Particularly I
have found myself cutting plate steel with
a hand-held angle grinder, which was far
from an ideal method.

Back to the Drawing Board
Again
This project began to take shape when I
found a small, cast iron, circular saw table-
top being thrown on the tip. I have a table
saw in my workshop (garage) which is much
bigger than the item being discarded, so the
garbage one was not much use to me for
that purpose. However, the sliding, metal
cutting chop saw, photo 1, began to take
shape in my mind.
There are many items for sale, described
as “chop saw stands for angle-grinders” on
auction websites, but I wanted to be able

David Haythornthwaite

1

2

Original cast iron table 305 x 290mm

The fi nished metal cutting sliding saw