Irwin is who I usually turn to for my circular saw blades since I get excellent performance from them. At the end of the day, it’s the blade that does the work and Pros will stick with what they know will perform day in and day out. Here are a few reasons why I always keep Irwin WeldTec Blades for framing cuts on my circular saws:

If height adjustments were standardized, we could expect each saw to make them nearly identically. Taking a look under the hood, we discovered several different methods—each with their own effect. Most of the saws employ a bevel gear system that provides smooth and reliable performance. We noticed that many used solid metal gearing, but Bosch used plastic for both the 4100 and the REAXX.

It’s a deep-sider. “This is the deepest body side we’ve ever generated,” Woodhouse said of the Corsair’s sensuously S-curved sheetmetal stampings.

An avid endurance athlete, Kenny has competed in triathlons (he’s an Ironman) and various other fitness activities. Still, his passions lie with his faith, family, friends, and his love for well-designed power tools. With a background in science, you’ll often find Kenny chatting up engineers at media events to get caught up on the latest tool technology.

Framing work is full of rougher cuts that rarely makes use of more than one blade at a time. But occasionally you might need dados for an onsite custom build in. If that sounds like you, be sure to find out the saw’s dado stack capacity. It requires a longer arbor and you won’t be able to use your normal throat plate for it. Some manufacturers offer a dado throat plate if they have the capacity for it.

In a sense do I just need to swap over the chainrings (praxisworks) to the correct gearing such as 48/35 to make them compatible with the new chain and groupset? Question of course is if praxisworks makes them in that sizing, or if I have to buy the full groupset and take the Chainrings of it and install it on my current powermeter to make it compatible?

I’m curous about this also, because if it’s compatible with current blips, it should be compatible with current shifters right? I would love to be able to upgrade just the RD and FD. The shifters just send a simple signal. It doesn’t need the upgraded comm that the FD has. I don’t want to buy shifters and have to redo the brake lines. The whole purpose of this for me is just swapping out the FD and RD without running any lines. If I have to run brake lines every time I want to upgrade, I might as well just get Di2….then again upgrades there won’t have to run any lines again.

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Every spring, the biggest names in the automotive world roll into Manhattan for the New York International Auto Show. For the next nine days (April 19 to April 28), the Jacob Javits Center will be teeming with sizzling hot sheet metal of all shapes and sizes.

Like Kobalt, the wheeled stand is a decent quality for transportation and we wouldn’t be disappointed to use it. Our only cause for concern is the amount of play in the fence. Even with best practices, it had a lot of wobble and a tendency to lock down slightly off-square.

If the name Rauh-Welt Begriff (RWB) doesn’t ring any bells, you probably know the cars well. Known for wide fenders and a massive spoiler, these cars are hard to miss. While some think they ruin a classic Porsche, other see them as pure art. We found one on Bring a Trailer a while ago and fell for its sheer aggression.

We set up the same exact test for the SawStop Jobsite table saw and again slammed our hand down onto the spinning blade. This time, however, the aluminum brake mechanism completely stopped the spinning blade. There was a noticeable difference in sound compared to a blade that kept spinning below the table surface. The other main difference included the fact that Kenny’s hand had absolutely no visible damage. He felt some contact with the blade, but it was so slight as to be imperceptible. When we looked at his palm, absolutely no trace of any blade contact appeared. None.