Testing my Bosch GKS 55+ GCE circular saw with variable speed for cutting mild steel: square tubes, threaded rod, sheet. I am using a Bosch Expert Steel saw blade ( id: 2608643054 )
*Works great **MyBest.Tools** . Little lacking in power. You just have to cut a little slower. Compare to Rockwell pretty similar experience but cheaper price tag for this one. Love the lightest. Cuts accurately too.*
Hello Razvan, first, thanks for your video. I currently bought the Bosch GKS 55+ G circular saw and can´t figure out how to read the parallel stop. The only mark is at the bottom plate, but there is no mm scale on the down side of the parallel stop. Can you help me since you used your parallel stop for the first cut in the video? Thanks :)
Hi Nick, congrats for your saw. It is a good one, I use mine for all sorts of stuff and it serves me well. About the parallel guide, the scale starts with 0 at the inner edge of the guide, so you can see the distance between the guide and the blade. The problem is that at the blade side there is no notch/stop/edge/cut/etc to check exactly where the scale is tangent to the blade. Because of that reason I don't use that scale, but I turn the saw upside down and I use a ruler with which I touch the blade to measure the distance to the inner edge of the guide. In that way I can adjust the guide with about 1mm tolerance.
Razvan Aciu thanks for your quick answer, I really doubted my skills for using the saw :D good to know that this is a common problem, but really strange that there aren't any comments about this problem in the whole internet. I think I will buy a parallel stop with a scale on the back and then cut the mark on the bottom steel plate a little bit bigger.
De ce ai ales modelul ăsta și nu gkt 55? (imi caut un circular cu care sa pot face decupaje în metal și lem, cu la care sa pot începe taierea și de la mijlocul plăcii)
salut, acest model a fost mai ieftin (cred ca 1/2 din gkt 55) si am gasit pentru el o panza Expert Steel, cu care sa pot decupa in metal. Pentru preocupari de bricolaj, imi este suficient. Pentru materiale mai simple, gen lemn, poti face plunge cut cu orice circular (ex: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5rz0OgrP3Zk.html ), dar pentru metale sau alte materiale dure, trebuie ceva specializat. Deci, daca te asiguri ca gasesti panze pentru materialele de care ai nevoie (diametru si viteza), gkt 55 cred ca e peste ce am eu.
Pânza nu va ține mult deoarece o lovești constant la contactul cu materialul. La gcd12 poți apăsa f ușor pe braț ca să dai timp panzei să intre in metal și apoi poți apăsa mai tare. Secretul longevității panzei este contactul cu metalul, arw loc brusc, a sărit dintele si apoi plângi; pânzele sunt f scumpe!
