I had some steel rectangular tubing I wanted to form into a part to
    hold dial indicators on my lathe. The band saw was too slow and some
     cuts were not possible on a band saw. I discovered the solution.

    I put a warn down to (10 inches)  14 inch friction saw blade and put
     in in the table saw. Worked like a charm and  it was almost as
    fast as a hot knife through butter:-)

    It is wonderful and great for cutting sheet steel up to about 1/8th
    or maybe 3/16th inch thick. Much cleaner and much faster and much
    cheaper than a cutting torch.

    Paul Lamar

    I use a metal cutting blade in my table saw, I have one set up just
    for metal. I can't remember the manufacturer name, the blades are
    about $50 for a 10 in but they are made for his purpose and work
    great. I have cut up to 1.25 6061T6 and .250 4130 with them. Just
    watch your feed rate and use cutting lube.

    No scoring needed.

    David Mikesell


   I use a carbide blade for cutting aluminum on the table saw.
   That works great.

   Never tried it on steel. That scares me :-)


    Paul Lamar

He is talking about a cut off style blade which does not have teeth...

Yep. You can see it in one of the pictures.

Paul Lamar

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