How to choose a nail file for the jigsaw for wood and metal - Tips

There are 3 variants of execution of the instrument - hand, table and electric.For the first two types of jigsaws nail files simply select, the more so that almost all of the same type.As for e-mail / jigsaw, there is much more complicated.This is due to the versatility of its use, and a large assortment of saw blades.On the nuances of their choice for the electric tools necessary to understand in more detail.

Features mounting

This is the first, where to start learning range.If you later find that correctly selected on all other criteria file for the specific model does not fit the jigsaw, you have to go back to the point of sale and exchange.And this could happen as tools from different manufacturers differ, including, and the specifics of sawing attachment.

Length (mm)

It varies between 50 - 150. Quite often, when it comes to household tools, sawing acquired "for all."In this case, practitioners are advised to focus on the length of 100. As a rule, for homework that is enough.

choosing a nail file, one should consider the power and electric / Jig (how to choose a jigsaw, read here).What sense to buy too long, focusing only on the thickness of the sample for cutting, if the tool is it just "not pull".And the price of a saw blade is higher than the short analogue.If you intend to work a jigsaw with a chipboard, laminate, plywood, it is advisable to choose the last option (within 50 - 80).

possibilities for cutting

market offers saws for virtually any material - from soft (wood, plastic) to the solid (metals and artificial stones).But cutting concrete and "iron" in the domestic environment, as a rule, email / fret not done.To do this, there are other tools - "Bulgarian", hacksaw.And the criteria for the selection of special saws professionals know about it so a few comments below.But the samples to perform everyday, homework is more to understand.

A good host is always a set - for wood (and products based on it), plastics, Plexiglas.Depending on the thickness of the sample and the specific cuts in the home should be set at 2 - 3 sawing each species.How to choose them?

It's something else to explain configuration and arrangement of teeth.This will help to choose the right nail file, if you intend to carry out with the help of the jigsaw "fine" work.

layout

The larger it is, the wider the line of cut.But this increases the speed and convenience, as wood "trash" is given rapidly.Sometimes the teeth are deflected in different directions by separate groups.These saws are suitable for working with plastics, color / subject of wood and upholstered.

web width

The greater the value of this parameter, the more accurate will be cut when working with thicker samples.

When selecting nail files need to look at it marked

Symbols «HCS» indicates that this product is designed to work with materials soft enough (plastic, wood).But for the solid must be selected nail files with the designation «HSS».There are also more expensive designs with increased strength ( «BIM»).They are made of bimetal, and allow you to work with virtually all alloys, ceramics and other materials with extremely dense structure.But for home use appropriateness of their purchase rather questionable, given the simplicity of domestic work and the high price of saw blades in this category.

Useful tips on choosing

sawing Durability depends not only on the skill and accuracy of the master, but also on the quality of steel.Buying cheap products «made in China", is unlikely to succeed to save.They break down pretty quickly, and if we compare the total cost spent on a specific technological operation patterns (and even taking the time to replace them, perhaps on a hike in the store), the benefit is very questionable.

sale found saws, which are positioned as special, "Tile".Yes, they can be cut with a ceramic.But that's how it is advisable to do it with the help of the jigsaw, especially at home?Not to mention the fact that the work will go slowly, produced so much dust that hardly will have a desire to continue cutting.For these purposes, it is not necessary to spend money on nail file, from any known manufacturer it may be and no matter how attractive price or sell.To work with ceramics instead of the jigsaw should be used a glass cutter - and faster, and cleaner.

Judging by advertising, the market has a nail file, which provide almost the perfect cut.We strongly recommend them, for example, for cutting laminate, parquet.And many believe that this is the modification, without which "no means".To what extent this is true, especially if you compare the cost of a jigsaw (about 2 200 - 2 760 rubles) and these saws (550 rubles and up to 1100)?

«home handyman" who do not have sufficient experience in dealing with the e / tool, the author gives a hint - all this is a myth.In the sense that it is such saws - "the only option clean cut." Firstly, the product, for example, the same «Bosch» (Series «T101» AIF or AOF), chips produced minimal.If you observe the accuracy, the better, and it does not need, especially since the price is acceptable - within 330 rubles.Second, the end portions of preforms produced when cutting during installation sealed anything (at the joints) or closed (for example, the regeneration of the finished floor - baseboards).Question - so is it worth paying the very same 550, 780 or 900?

Universal jigsaw for sawing - not the best choice.Manufacturers claim that they can be cut and the wood, and metals.But, as is well known, means "by only" does not exist.Plus, that gives such versatility sawing, complemented and outs - reduced quality of cut, slow speed and a number of others.They are suitable only for basic operations with the help of the jigsaw when it is not important the accuracy nor the performance or condition of the edges of the fragments.

For figure cutting jigsaw, for example, on the wood, you need to choose the saw blade with a narrow blade.