How do you clean your circular saw blades ?

[gensetsteve]

I have a 450 mm blade in an uncut saw. The wood is all kiln dried pine but the blade is bogging in the cut. The blade looks sharp and as good as new a reasonable quality Bosch blade. But have noticed a build up of resin around the teeth about 2 mm thick. Has any one found a product that removes this easily ?

[SteveA]

I have a 450 mm blade in an uncut saw. The wood is all kiln dried pine but the blade is bogging in the cut. The blade looks sharp and as good as new a reasonable quality Bosch blade. But have noticed a build up of resin around the teeth about 2 mm thick. Has any one found a product that removes this easily ?

 

There was a thread a while ago on cleaning resin off silky saws.... that came up with various solutions.

 

Have a look here: http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/chainsaws/89053-resin-cleaning-nightmare.html

 

cheers, steve

Edited November 15, 2015 by SteveA

[Sandworks]

I have a 450 mm blade in an uncut saw. The wood is all kiln dried pine but the blade is bogging in the cut. The blade looks sharp and as good as new a reasonable quality Bosch blade. But have noticed a build up of resin around the teeth about 2 mm thick. Has any one found a product that removes this easily ?

 

 

This is an issue I get when cutting large quantities of decking timber, my solution is just get a battery drill and flat light wire brush run the drill so that it brushes from the back of the tips to the front .... Then do the other side..... To do this run the drill in reverse..... No damage to tips, we 40 on clean blade slows down the build up also

[mixedangased]

Or you can use silicon spray on the blade it helps,

My mate uses it in his wood shop on the rip saw

[gensetsteve]

I tried a few things but it seems to have baked on at just the right temperature a wire brush does not even touch it. The machine is pneumatic with auto guide and munches its way through a couple of metres of wood an hour for days at a time. I was looking for that other thread useful read thanks. Guess it's time to try every thing as its steel not much will damage it. Does any one use or own one of those Chinese grinders for sharpening tct blades.

[SteveA]

I tried a few things but it seems to have baked on at just the right temperature a wire brush does not even touch it. The machine is pneumatic with auto guide and munches its way through a couple of metres of wood an hour for days at a time. I was looking for that other thread useful read thanks. Guess it's time to try every thing as its steel not much will damage it. Does any one use or own one of those Chinese grinders for sharpening tct blades.

 

I find resin bakes very hard on the teeth of my circular saw blade too. Have you tried using a Stanley knife to remove the majority of the resin? 2mm is quite thick.

cheers, steve

[aspenarb]

Sounds like a call for an engineering solution. How about a constant drip feed of a light oil both sides of the blade fed in from under the cutting deck? just thoughts.

 

Bob

[se7enthdevil]

try cutting a nice bit of hardwood and that should knock the resin off.

[cornish wood burner]

An aerosol of resin cleaner

[Big steve]

I use a screwdriver and just pick it off of our blades it's along way round a24inch blade

Or as said above a Stanley knife Iv never noticed ours to cause issues with cutting though !

 

Steve