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How do you maintain your circular saw blades?
Publié le 1 October 2024
Circular saw blades play an essential role in the quality and precision of your cuts. To ensure a clean cut and prolong the life of your blades, regular maintenance is essential. Find out why and how to maintain your blades, as well as tips for optimizing their performance.
Why is it important to maintain your saw blades?
A circular saw blade quickly accumulates resin, dust and other debris during use. This can lead to loss of efficiency, cleaner cuts, overheating, and even premature blade deterioration.
By regularly cleaning and maintaining your blades, you can avoid these problems and extend their service life. What's more, well-maintained blades consume less energy and require less force to make precise cuts.
When should I act on a circular saw blade?
It is advisable to service your saw blades as soon as you notice a drop in performance, or after each major project. If you notice any visible deposits on the teeth or blade body, cleaning is necessary, as they reduce cutting efficiency and increase blade wear.
Circular saws and circular knives are used extensively in factories for cutting metal parts. Sharpening cutting tools optimizes or restores original cutting precision.
Regular sharpening of your blades and circular knives is essential to maintain their optimum performance and extend their service life. So the crucial question is: when should you sharpen them? The answer depends on a number of factors, but here are a few indicators to guide you.
- Loss of blade efficiency;
- Poor surface finish of machined part
- Your tools cause burns on the material you are cutting or generate splinters;
- For regular use of your circular knives and blades.
A regularly sharpened blade will perform much better when in use. A well-maintained cutting tool ensures worker safety by reducing the risk of splinter generation and accidents during cutting.
This complex operation requires specific expertise. Sharpening must be adapted to both the application and the material being machined.
Maintaining a circular saw blade
To maintain and extend the life of your blades, it's important to clean them properly with suitable products, but also, as with all cutting tools, to ensure that the tool is sharp enough to guarantee the quality of the cut.
You can also protect your blades by adding a coating, which we'll discuss in more detail below.
How to clean a circular saw blade
To effectively clean a circular saw blade, it's important to remove all cutting residues such as resin, glue or wood shavings. These deposits can build up on the blade and affect the quality of the cut by causing additional friction, premature wear, or marks on future machined products. Regular maintenance not only extends blade life, but also ensures a cleaner, more precise cut.
What product should you use to clean your circular saw blade?
However, care must be taken with the cleaning products used, as some coatings applied to blades can be sensitive to excessively abrasive agents. For example, for a blade coated with BALINIT ALCRONA PRO (AcierMax), based on AlCrN, or BALINIT LATUMA (InoxShield), based on TiAlN, the use of mild products is recommended so as not to impair the performance of the coating, which ensures increased resistance to wear and thermal shock.
Re-sharpening the blade and teeth
When blade teeth begin to dull, resharpening is essential. Our resharpening service gives you a clean cut and prolongs the life of your blades.
Here are the steps you need to take to ensure that your saw blades and circular knives return to optimum performance after sharpening.
- Careful examination
Our team carries out a thorough inspection of circular saw blades and circular knives. This evaluation is designed to identify any irregularities, roughness or deformation, while ensuring that these tools are fit to undergo the sharpening process.
- Wear correction
All wear and tear is rectified using a highly precise grinding machine. This step is crucial to restoring blade geometry and finish.
- Tooth restoration
The teeth of circular saw blades and circular knives are restored with the utmost precision. This guarantees their efficiency and longevity. We ensure that every tooth is perfectly sharpened. This phase is subject to rigorous controls to maintain high quality standards.
Using a coating on the circular saw blade
Some blades can be fitted with special coatings (non-stick, anti-corrosion) to reduce residue build-up and improve blade life.
The maintenance of your circular saw blades is essential to maintain the quality and precision of your cuts. By following these recommendations and adopting good maintenance practices, you'll ensure your tools last longer and work more efficiently. Should you require further advice or a resharpening service, our team of experts will be happy to assist you.
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