Mad Saw. (Power Devils Circular Saw)

Member Name: andycharger

Product:	Power Devils Circular Saw
Date:	15/12/00 (483 review reads)
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Advantages: Good powerful saw

Disadvantages: not built out of the best materials.

The Power Devil range is good value for money in my opinion although I have had a problem with my circular saw.
I dont really like using it as its extremely dangerous in my opinion.
The reasoning behind this is the saw guard is made of a very flexible metal and can easily be bent out of shape.This happened on my saw and the blade is now exposed when you retract the guard before it is cutting.
Sometimes the guard is misaligned and makes contact with the blade and sparks do fly!
It is quite heavy for a small saw too. You really have to hang onto it to keep it under control. Not something for the novice to use and best not used unsupervised.
It does not follow lines too well either.
It tends to go off line far too easily. The guides are not very good and its hard to set up.
It comes with a very large toothed saw blade that is capable of cutting through wood at a rate of knots but it leaves a very coarse finish because of this.
Its best to replace the blade with a smaller toothed disc because it gives a smother, more accurate finish and it is not too much slower at cutting.
What it does not have is dust extraction facility. This would be very useful to get rid of the harmful sawdust from the cutting surface and also let me see where im going along the cutting line.
At £40 I could not really complain as the Black and decker saw and Bosch Saws are much more expensive.
In fact, B & Q now have them on special offer at £35!!!
Buy one if you think you can handle the little quirks it has!

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