Compound mitre saw recommendations

[RobTi]

Hi I am looking for a cheap saw for doing odd jobs round the house (120mm skirtings and facings) as this is all it would be used for I was hoping for sub £100 if possible but if they are all a pile of xxxx then I will go a bit higher.

So what would you recommend?

Thanks

 

[big-all]

evolution rave
marmite
some rave about them some hate them
seems you get a good un they are brilliant get a bad un ----
try aldi on line or instore or lidle

 

[cjard]

Screwfix are always putting one evolution model or another on offer . Take some time out to adjust everything for accuracy at the start and it'll do you well

 

[nickjb]

Happy with my evolution rage. Its not top quality but easily good enough to do accurate neat cuts. The metal cutting ability works too.

 

[fidom]

Yes, I also have the Evolution Rage. It has done a lot of work because some of my firewood comes in thicknesses small enough to go in it. The only frustrating aspect is the blade guard which limits the size of material you can cut more than the size of blade itself.

 

[cjard]

"Guards don't prevent accidents; wisdom prevents accidents" I was once told

 

[John D v2.0]

The wisdom of using a guard, that is!

 

[cjard]

"Accidents do not happen, they are caused" - one of my dad's

I don't doubt Old MadDonald (the former quoter) wasn't talking about "caused by lack of guards" either..


"Speed does not kill; incompetence kills" - my old man, again. This time on road safety awareness adverts

 

[^woody^]

The Jeremy Kyle show is full of accidents.

Anyhow, B&Q had a good offer recently on two types of sliding saw and and a nice stand too. about £110 for saw and stand IIRC. I'm not sure if its still on.

I use a performance pro effort from B&Q from years ago, and its been great. It cuts, it cuts angles. Don't need much else.

To my shame, it has a broken guard which I've been meaning to fix for years.

 

[catlad]

Well Woody its funny you should mention that, I have four mitre saws and
the one that I use the most is my old performance power pro which is left in the van permanently and it too has a broken guard which
I have fixed once or twice.

 

[vinn]

"wisdom prevents accidents" - what nonsense.
Try applying wisdom on a table saw when, lacking a guard and a push stick, your fingers cross the ripping teeth.
Power tools & wood machinery safety features & the UK H&S Regs are up there with German safety standards as probably the highest in the world.
They are there to protect the Darwin Prize contestants against themselves, & save the NHS millions.

Safe tools and training prevents accidents.

 

[cjard]

your fingers cross the ripping teeth.

What you're proposing doesn't sound very wise

They are there to protect the Darwin Prize contestants against themselves

Arguably, not very wise people then?

...training...

Transfer/acquiry of wisdom, no?


Above you have two professionals who admit to years of using power saws with broken guard mechanisms, and yet here they are, clearly passing on their wisdom using devices that require fingers..

 

[John D v2.0]

This is all showing a lack of knowledge of what healt h and safety actually is (as opposed to the caricature)
Cjard you seem to be saying it's every person for themselves when it comes to guards, and if you make a mistake then you deserve to lose a finger.
Much as I hate compensation culture, I know the injury lawyers would have a field day and rightly so if someone lost their finger working due to a broken guard.

 

[cjard]

Sounds more like you mean "duty of care" John - catlad/woody are using their own tools and are aware of the H&S risks of running them without guards. No amount of guarding in the world will stop someone determined [work in a manner that will result in an "accident"] to make an insurance claim from cutting off a finger, and ultimately every situation requires wisdom to be safe. Someone has to have that wisdom, as duty of care has reasonable limits. You can remove the guards and keep the wisdom and still work in a safe manner. It's when the wisdom is removed that problems occur, because guards are not an adequate substitute

 

[John D v2.0]

Ah I see thanks for the update - as long as people don't read your posts and think the thing to do is remove guards!make sense when you explain it like that.
It's a bit like working live, you can get away with it, but the most skilled people are usually the ones who avoid doing it most!