How many times have y’all been doing something with a power tool ie: cutting, and you think that this does not feel right. Like something is going to happen. Here I am after sheathing a wall which had a window R.O. deciding to cut the R.O. out. Start cutting downward, there’s a flash (which I thought was a nail) and the saw cord falls to the ground. Missed me, but on the drive home was thinking I may have been lucky on that one. I measured around the rest of the windows the rest of the day. I’m sure a lot of y’all have saws with black tape near the handle because of this.
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Happens all the time. Look for a thread "Cuttin the cord"
Do it right, or do it twice.
belt sanders are the worst for going over the cord.
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i'm with andy- it's belt sanders that are the worst. i think with a saw you tend to have a more point A to point B task. with sanders you're more likely to be kinda shuffling back and forth and the cord eventually creeps up under the rear of the sander and- if you're me- you end up looking to see if it came unplugged. then cussing. the only circular saw cord incident i ever had (btw- it was just once with the sander- i'm a fairly quick learner) was when i was in the process of setting it down after a cut, the blade had slowed considerably and a coil of the cord popped up into the blade, making a handy blade brake- and a small nick in the covering.
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I'd vote for upright vacuum cleaners and electric lawn edger/trimmers as having the most abused power cords..
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
Early on in my home repair career I cut the cord to my circular saw. Ever since then it is a rare moment indeed when I do not look to see where the cord is before I start. Just like I make sure I have no body parts behind the saw since the little hole in my pants leg with a tiny little cut behind it. I usually don't need to do stuff like that twice.
I agree that keeping the cord away from the belt sander is a pain.
Rich Beckman
Another day, another tool.
After replacing the factory cord on my Skil saw two times, the third time I added a "sleeve" of 1/2" flex conduit about 12" long. I first tried 3/8" armor cable with the wires removed, but it was just too tight. I de-burred the edges well and taped it in placed right where it would pass by the blade. This works great.
I found hitting the cord happened mostly when I was cutting straight down, where the saw was up at a 90 Deg angle. this is when the cord dangles right in front of the blade. I'm not about to change my cutting technique as this is the most accurate and efficient way to cut with a worm drive- let gravity do most of the work.
Good luck!
brings to mind when that happened to me been about 25 yrs ( still have & use saw ) days when Skil had service centers and there was one in our town
hadn't had the saw very long took it in and the guy said were you the one sawing ya good to see you he said now that you need a new cord do you want a longer one ya sounds like a good idea to me got a call three days later saw is ready went in asked what I owed he said get out of here and get back to work
I left w/ a smile and my newly 20 ft. corded wormdrive skilsaw those were the days
Hedgetrimmers are the worst
every tool i own has had its cord cut or otherwise mutilated
therefore i always have spare cords and plugs in the truck
Hedge trimmers. They have so many cutting slots that a corded hedge trimmer becomes a cordless hedge trimmer in no time.
There is a solution. Use a 12 gauge cord and it's thick enough that it wouldn't get caught by the teeth.
Tom
Have you ever dragged around a long 12g extension cord ? I tried my 12g frog-hide 100 footer for my lawn trimmer once - boy that's heavy..
Phill Giles
The Unionville Woodwright
Unionville, Ontario
Small lot, 50 footer.
Tom
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