Hacksaw blades

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Vipar

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Hi all you engineers out there.

I need to purchase some hacksaw blades. So what make, and how many teeth?
I want it for cutting all types of metal and plastics.
 
Have you already got the hacksaw,if so what size?
 
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as said , a good quality blade from a reputable maker and if you get 32 , 24 , 18 tip blades you will have all your options covered..
Andy
 
Regarding TPI on a hacksaw blade, I was always told by my Apprentice Suprvisor that it depended on the thickness of the material.
He always pointed out that there should always be more than one tooth on the subject material at any time.
So if you were cutting material that was, say, 1/8" thick then the blade should have more than 8 TPI.
The finer, (more TPI) , the blade, the cleaner the cut.
I favour Erbauer blades.
 
Graduated blades are available, we used to use them a lot, very convenient.
 
Likewise, always told by my Apprentice Supervisor. The teeth only cut one way, so, it's forward, slight lift, back, drop, forwards. If we were spotted doing anything else it would cost us 2/- out of our £3-16-4d weekly pay, each time.

I taught both my boys that and it applies to any hand saw. Although I used to try and just stop their food for any misdemeanors. Notice the word "try", because starving her babies well, that never got past Management. :rofl:

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Jimbohorlicks said:
Eclipse are probably the best and you need a fine toothed blade for metal,at least 24 teeth per inch.
Just make sure you put the blade in the correct way with teeth pointing forward. (y)
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A workmate spent a long, long time cutting a steel wire armoured cable.
Nobody had the heart, or inclination, to tell him the blade was backwards.
 
I've still got my original Facom hacksaw from 15 years ago and it's still going strong, it's had four new handles and eight blades.
😁
 
Ordered 6 various Eclipse blades. To Mach the saw.
Thanks all for the information. My Present one lasted 4 years, bit gutted as they would not let me trade it in for the new ones.

I thought that I was born in Kent seems like it was Yorkshire 😂😂
 
i once bought two boxes of hacksaw blades from an auction they had obviously never been hardened and the teeth stripped of they were ridiculously cheap
 
Vipar said:
Ordered 6 various Eclipse blades. To Mach the saw.
Thanks all for the information. My Present one lasted 4 years, bit gutted as they would not let me trade it in for the new ones.

I thought that I was born in Kent seems like it was Yorkshire 😂😂
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Using a little cutting fluid will make them last must longer and use the whole length of the blade don't make short cutting actions.
 
I'm off Eclipse at the moment. They're well-ground and long lasting but the ridiculously thick paint they coat them with doesn't come off easily so the first few jobs are more difficult than they should be. Note I said and meant jobs - not cuts. The stuff takes ages to wear off. And for the record my several hacksaws are 10" & 12" mixed and all have different pitch blades. Is there a prize? :dance2:
 
Had that problem with some brands, the paint is so thick it starts coming off in chunks on the first few cuts.

We mainly use 24tpi or 32 if its thin material

I usually try pay the extra and get the cobalt blades if possible as exhaust bolts tend to go pretty hard.

Dad picked up some cheapo ones on a market and they just shatter. You get what you pay for.

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Nixdorfer said:
Dad picked up some cheapo ones on a market and they just shatter. You get what you pay for.
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Some blades are fully hardened HSS, which is brittle. OK for use with jigs and machines, or careful professional use. For general use, best to get 'bimetal' blades, which have hardened teeth but the main blade section is still flexible. Better for casual use where bending the blade is more likely.
 
We had a sparky at work who had a double sided hacksaw blade. It was twice as deep as a normal blade. It was funny to watch him using it, he would be working up a sweat, complaining how dull this side was, then turn the blade over and carry on quite happily, he'd do this a couple of times a day on big conduit installations ! :LOL:
 
mitzimad said:
i once bought two boxes of hacksaw blades from an auction they had obviously never been hardened and the teeth stripped of they were ridiculously cheap
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Modern ones from China do exactly the same thing. The tooth set is poor as well causing the cut to drift off line!
 
When I was just a toddler dad showed me how to make a knife from a broken hacksaw blade. Every time a friend see’s them my stock gets reduced by 2. I make one into mini hacksaw and the other into a smooth edge honed to perfection. I buy doweling for the handles because I sold my lathe a couple of years ago.
 

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