Cutting Siding With Mitre Saw

This jig can also be used to easily cut vinyl.

Cutting siding with mitre saw. Best 12 metal cutting blade. Cut aluminum with your miter saw making accurate cuts on aluminum rods tubes and angles is easy with a miter saw and a blade designed to cut nonferrous metal check the label. Release it as soon as the blade is fully engaged in the wood. Failing to do this can result in your circular saw cutting into the workbench or table beneath the siding itself.

Mark the area to cut and slowly feed the blade into the siding. Lay the vinyl siding on a flat table or workbench. Miter cut on a wide board clamp your workpiece for bevel cuts. It saved me countless hours of work.

The one blade we d recommend you use to definitely cut non ferrous metals with your miter saw is the freud lu77m012 d1296l 12 inch blade with 96 teeth and a 1 inch arbor. Then retract the blade guard to start the bevel cut. The climbing phenomenon is defeated. If the motor housing on your saw is open and could collect metal chips tape a piece of cloth over the openings to protect the motor windings and bearings while you cut.

You should position the siding so that the cutting line is hanging off the edge for obvious reasons. The blade features an ultra thin laser cut kerf and a non stick silver ice coating that protects blade from heat gumming and corrosion. The cut is cleaner and the job is done much more safely. I show you a simple wooden jig i built myself to cut new aluminum soffit.

Install a plywood blade backward onto a circular saw.