[Rockhounds] highland park saw to cut bricks

[Tim Fisher]

Use kerosene if you want flammable bricks. If you don't particularly 
want to smell it for years, or have them catch on fire, I would 
suggest using a water lubricated saw designed for this purpose. You 
can also get dry cutting blades for your circular saw that will do a 
bangup job on bricks. I really don't think it is necessary to rent a 
saw for that job. My dry blade can cut concrete (albeit slowly and 
dustily). Highland Parks were not designed to be used with water, 
with or without a rust inhibitor, so if you put water in it, you are 
taking a rather large risk (a risk that I wouldn't take with such a nice saw).

P.S. I wouldn't use kerosene for anything. I mean come on, it's 
jetboat fuel for chrissakes.

At 05:04 PM 3/26/2008, you wrote:
>You should use light cutting oil or maybe kerosene it will take 
>severaal gallons and the brick/block will sharpen your blade.  If 
>you use water it will rust your saw and that is the cadilac of 
>saws  probably worth between 800 and 1500 if the blade and works are 
>good.  there was a long thread about types of oil  I only recommend 
>kerosene cause it is cheap and dosent sound like you are wanting to 
>cut rock  ie agate etc with it  Steve
>----- Original Message ----- From: <Thejunkman88 at aol.com>
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>Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:05 PM
>Subject: [Rockhounds] highland park saw to cut bricks
>
>
>>I have a 18" Highland Park saw that I inherited and was wondering if it
>>would be OK  to cut brick paving stones with it.  If so what would 
>>I  use to cool
>>the blade?  Thanks, Fred

Tim Fisher
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