aluminum plates and profiles

[Martin Czech]

> Just out of curiosity, why do you say cutting aluminum is an awful job?
> It has been my experience that, so long as you have a fine-toothed metal
> cutting blade 3/8 inches wide (I had one made for a 14 inch bandsaw for
> $10), a relatively low-power bandsaw works just fine.  And while it does
> create aluminum "sawdust", it does not send it flying like a circular saw
> does.  If you buy or make a ripfence, then cutting nice square panels is
> quite easy.  The edges need only a minimal amount of smoothing.  Anyway,
> just my opinion.
> 
 Well, I didn't try a bandsaw (this is also circular in a way, right?),
but a hand pendulum saw (no circular blade). The blade is 2mm thick,
but it still goes to the left or right, and there is a lot of 
vibration. So the cut is very ugly, 0.5-0.7mm tolerance.

m.c.