BOLTR: Makita Mitre Saw | Aluminum Cuts

"All tongue and groove, not a stud in sight". Lol! AvE, you should write a book. I'm sure it would sell out. Even if there were more than 10 copies.

My grandfather used one of these mitre saws for woodworking until the day he died working in his shop. Love you grandpa, R.I.P.

She offered her honor. He honored her offer. And all night long, He was on 'er and off 'er.

Can u get the missing footage where u ramble please

Hey AvE, I just wanted to say thank you for all your content. I have been a long time patreon. Thanks to watching videos like yours and others I have decided to change careers. I was a commercial driver for 11 years, and now I am a commercial electrician. I joined the IBEW inside wireman apprenticeship program, this seems like a much better career path for me to use my brains and not just my hands. Keep the videos coming!

remember that scene in Forest Gump where Bubba wouldn't shut up about Aluminum?

Buddy! You cut the content we came for!

Dad was a carpenter growing up and we put a lot of miles on one of those little makita sliding miter saws. He had one small sliding one that he kept on the truck all the time and another big bastard that we would setup at the work site and chain down until the house was built. We were hard on our tools (his tools) but i don't have anything bad to say about the makita tools we used. Dad retired but still has all of his tools and some of the small makita 1/2 handheld drills (probably 20 years old) will still break your wrist before they stall.

Ive been using an early 90s makita carpenters miter saw that I threw a black metal blade in for a few years now cutting steel lol. She still chooches away no problem. Melted the old plastic jiblets on the base but no problem!

This will probably get lost in the comments but I'm a carpenter by trade and do a lot of office fit outs using extruded aluminium partitioning. We have found this saw to be the best. The worst part about cutting aluminium is that it loves to kick back; which doesn't happen as much on this saw compared to all the other sliding mitre saws we've used prior, which is obviously down to the fact that the slide on the other saws introduces much more side-to-side play than the straight drops.

The last aluminium fab shop I worked in I fitted all the saws with inline air lubricators, a fitting tapped into the blade housing and a simple contact switch (roller type) on the saw. Soon as you bring the blade down the switch would allow an oil mist to spray onto the blade. We just used inox... Somehow I ended up being the only guy that would refill it.

I'm a industrial maintenance technician for a window manufacturer and we use these saws 1 on the line to cut aluminum screen bar, 2 saws for vinyl snap bead 1 for vinyl scrap saw, and 4 for wood. They were very reliable. The most common problems are the switches get crap in them and need changed every year or so and the push arm bends I change them once a year per saw and mind you it's a industrial manufacturing line and some of these saws go through thousands of cycles between 2 shifts 20 hours a day. The motors almost never go bad. We have one saw that has been on the floor for 5 years. These saws last.

These saws are a beast! They are the workhorses of my business. I am a trim carpenter, and at least 80% of my cuts are made with this saw.

Woohoo! Wife bought me the same LS1040 model 12 yrs ago for my birthday. Still works perfectly. Got a Makita 10" 80-tooth carbide blade soon after. Sweet cuts on both aluminum and 2x4s.

Clean up the man sparkles or you'll have a unicorn infestation.

A tip from one who's learned this the hard way. The plastic base insert can melt (better scenario) or catch fire (worse scenario) if you cut metal to continuously deposit enough hot metal chips. I had the latter scenario and had to extinguish a fire. No major damage because had a way to put out the fire (a full cup of coffee) and I was doing it in my driveway instead of inside my shop where flammables abound. I've since removed the charred remains of my plastic base insert. Obviously, don't use that cloth catch bag, either! Great vid.

Can you hear my MX Blues all the way in Kanuckistan?

We used one for years for aluminum and brass, use a 100 tooth blade with bee's wax for a cutting lube, if it plugs a tooth you will know, use a pair of needle nose pliers to get it out and back to cutting. I have cut 3" solid aluminum bar stock on one just use lots of wax.

"In theft-deterrent teal". Feaking hilarious!!

I want to hear all about aluminum. Give us the full three inches.