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Everyone says to toss a blade the second it kicks back, but my old Skilsaw taught me otherwise
Last Thursday a knot in a 2x10 pinched my Skilsaw and it jumped about 4 inches before the guard caught it, so I pulled the blade, checked the arbor for runout, and it was dead true, and now I'm wondering if my 6 month rule for swapping blades is costing me money for nothing.
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nathankim9h ago
Did you ever check the arbor on the new blades you've been buying to see if they were true from the start? I read somewhere that a lot of "worn out" blades get blamed for wobble when the real issue is a bent arbor or a bad bushing, and runout on the saw tells you way more than a calendar does. Six months of cutting soft pine is nothing compared to a couple weekends of hard oak, so a flat time rule never made much sense to me.
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