Has anyone got/used one of these with any sucess?
My compresor is'nt massive 25l but for short blasts of hobby work do they work?
http://www.machinemart.co.uk/shop/product/details/cat32b-high-speed-air-sabre-saw/path/air-saws-screwdrivers
I have a suspension bush to cut out on the cinquecenthoho 
but i'm sure I could use one for other things to, just cocerned whetehr they
work
I have the same kind, also running on a smallish compressor. I bought one to cut out a hard-to-get-to suspension bolt on my daihatsu and it worked great. Generally v useful on all kinds of stuff
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Originally posted by Benzine
I have the same kind, also running on a smallish compressor. I bought one to cut out a hard-to-get-to suspension bolt on my daihatsu and it worked great. Generally v useful on all kinds of stuff
i have this 1 and its fine also locost
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PRO-BODYSHOP-TOOLS-AIR-BODY-CUT-OFF-SAW-cw-6-BLADES-R13_W0QQitemZ260364953393QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Air_Tools_and_Compressors?has
h=item3c9ef5e731
I have one of these http://www.machinemart.co.uk/images/library/range/large/0054.jpg and a small 8cfm compressor. It gets used a lot!! Probably one of the best air tools I've bought!
I had one the same as in the first link; the blade motion is very short, virtualy just a vibration. I found it brilliant for cutting tubing as it
didn't cause the blade to snag on the edges of thin material. It was pretty useless for cutting anything of reasonable thickness however, you
could do it by hand much faster. Unfortunately it stopped working due to some phenomenally poor build quality, and was bin fodder afterwards.
Then I bought one like owelly has; it has a much longer stroke and therefore copes with thicker material better (but it's still slow) but
isn't as good on thin tubing. It's a much more robust tool though.
As per Benzine example I need to be able to cut through a bolt or similar to be vesatile, the ebay one only says 1.6mm in steel? doesnt sound much?
I needed to cut through a completely seized suspension bolt on my Striker when my first air saw fell to bits and I bought the second one (owelly type)
which went through an M12 bolt in a reasonable length of time. I reckon the first one would have taken a very long time to get through it, had it not
self destructed.
Don't discount a dremel if you have one, it saved my bacon cutting a seized exhaust flange bolt off my MR2 with extremely restricted access - I
had to force my arm into the space and blindly cut the head off the bolt! Slow progress for sure, but got the job done.
[Edited on 19/3/10 by MikeRJ]
Cheers , off to MM now!
I bought an electric dewalt demolition saw. One of the best things i have ever bought. Cuts Bolts tubes bars cars anything.
cut up 2 mx5's into smallish pieces and hauled them to the scrappy in my pickup all in an afternoon.
[Edited on 19/3/10 by liam.mccaffrey]
[Edited on 19/3/10 by liam.mccaffrey]
The thing with all this type of air saw is USE oil regular where the air line goes on
Jacko