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   vivadriver | Aug 29, 2004 07:08am | #1

   I saw the same item on a Bob Vila tape I have.  After some investigation on the webb I tracked it down.  I don't have all the details at hand but I did phone the inventor I think in St Louis.  I tried talking him into selling one to me wholesale so I could be the first Canadian with one.  He politely turned me down and told me to go to rightool.com to purchase one.  It was on sale last spring for $199.00.  I should have bought one then.  Two weeks later a friend giving me a hand used my Delta chopsaw to cut a few tracks and studs and I ended up replacing a window (the hot sparks like to fly) .  Malco (the same malco that makes steel stud crimpers) makes the stud cutter too but it was more exspensive.

   Have a good day...Vivadriver

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   SethArgon | Aug 29, 2004 07:42am | #2

   Thanks you very much that was exactly what I was looking for. I think I watched the same show as you, I think they were doing a greystone in Chicago. To me a second to figure out it was righttool.com 

   Thanks again!

   Edited 8/29/2004 12:45 am ET by Jack -O-Trades

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   vivadriver | Aug 29, 2004 07:51am | #3

   I still have that on my to buy list.  If you get one  let  us know how you like it.  The site is right-tool.com  .

   Edited 8/29/2004 12:57 am ET by vivadriver

   Edited 8/29/2004 1:13 am ET by vivadriver

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   caseyr | Aug 29, 2004 08:03am | #5

   I assume you are referring to the tool on the Malco website at:

   http://www.malcotools.com/products/drywall/src24a.htm

   I couldn't find a tool website that lists it although a lot of the sites carry other Malco products. The Malco website dealer locator shows there are four dealers within the Portland, OR, area, but I am sure that to order it would be at list price possibly plus freight... I guess I will probably just stick with a chop saw with a special toothed blade for light gauge steel studs. If anyone does get the shear, a full report would be appreciated.

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   vivadriver | Aug 29, 2004 08:11am | #6

   A friend in the HVAC business showed me the Malco shear in a catalogue.  The cost was more than double the Chamco shear at right-tool.com.

   Edited 8/29/2004 1:12 am ET by vivadriver

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   mikerooney | Aug 29, 2004 01:17pm | #7

   Try a commercial drywall supplier. I'm leaning towards the dry-cut saw Jeff described, or the 8" Milwaukee metal saw ($280). 

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   JeffBuck | Aug 29, 2004 07:53am | #4

   report back if ya get that thing ...

   looks promissing.

   though I have promissed the next steel stud job of any size I'm getting one of the new dry cutting chop saws ... the ones that use the teeth'ed blades ... not the abrasive .... my abrasive DeWalt chopper does just fine ...

   but I'd like to see how much more quietly I can cut a whole bundle ...

   appearantly lots quieter ... and no sparks ... with the new technology ...

   Jeff

   Buck Construction, llc   Pittsburgh,PA

        Artistry in Carpentry                

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   DaveRicheson | Aug 29, 2004 03:40pm | #8

   We have had one at work for the past 15 years. Think it is a Malco, but could be a knockoff. I have used it a lot at work and borrowed it a few times for basement  finishes. I am half deaf from to many years of not using hearing protection. That stud cutter is a blessing for a quite job. Cuts 2x4 and 2x6 metal studs to 22 ga. If I were doing this stuff full time, I would definately spring for one of my own.

   Dave

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   vivadriver | Aug 30, 2004 12:51am | #9

   I think your last sentence is the one we all were waiting for somebody to say.  I don't use steel studs everyday but enough to get one of those shears soon.