How To Make A Miter Saw From A Circular

How to make a stationary or manual circular with your own hands
How can you assemble a good circular saw yourself? Instructions for assembling a circular from an ordinary angle grinder or drill.

Circular from an angle grinder

If you have your own “angle grinder”, it is very good. To create a “circular”, you need to make an axial handle and a sliding stop to the unit. The design of the sliding stop includes a pair of steel angle pieces located on the sides of the saw blade. With the help of nuts and bolts, they are connected by a transverse bundle, and the gap between the working part and the sidewalls of the structure will be provided with washers.

On the “angle grinder” you need to pre-tighten the metal band clamp with a screw tie down. Then you need to attach the double-folded metal strip to the holes for the sliding stop. The stand and clamp can be combined, but in this situation the metal strip will be too thick.

Then, in the gearbox of the future tool, you will need to make several holes for the bolts. For this purpose, the body is disassembled, and the points where drilling will take place are indicated. With the help of the holes made, the axial handle is fixed, because the “standard” handle will not allow making a good cut, even if the master has very strong hands.

The handle is created from a metal tube or rod. Designs can be shaped like horns or braces. The ends of the element with which it will be attached to the gearbox must be provided with holes for installing fasteners.

You also need to make a barbell that will regulate the process. For this purpose, you need to take a piece of a metal rod, make a loop from one end of it, rivet it slightly and make a hole for the front stop bolt.

The other end of the rod needs to be threaded, which will allow you to connect it to the handle. In advance, one strong nut should be screwed onto this thread, and after the structure is assembled, the second. By lowering and pulling them, you can adjust the cutting depth. By the way, if you use a drill instead of an angle grinder, you can make a similar tool.

Thus, you can independently make a good circular saw out of an ordinary angle grinder, with which you can cut various materials.

How to make a stationary or manual circular with your own hands

A hand-made circular saw is an excellent tool that allows you to solve a large number of household and other tasks. In fact, it is not difficult to make this device on your own, even in that situation, if you do not have any special skills, the most important thing is to understand at least a little the principle of processing metal alloys.

The materials needed for the job can be found in the home workshop or in the garage. So, circular from a circular saw do it yourself is made of the following elements:

  • Corner of strong steel;
  • Rectangular shaped tube;
  • Engine.

The finished circular saw can be positioned on a workbench. If you don’t have one, you will have to make the table yourself. The engine can be taken from an old tiller or washing machine.

Compact benchtop machine

Above we talked about how to assemble a hand circular. Now we will tell you how to turn this device into a stationary one. This process involves the manufacture of a U-shaped bed from a pipe, as well as the installation of a transverse arm. The lower ends of the structure should bend horizontally in the direction of the cut. They are bolted to the table. Stability is provided by additional supports.

Lever mobility provided by cutting the horizontal segment into two identical parts, which are fixed to each other with clamps. The saw blade is attached to the vertical element of the bed with clamps.

Circular from an angle grinder

If you have your own “angle grinder”, it is very good. To create a “circular”, you need to make an axial handle and a sliding stop to the unit. The design of the sliding stop includes a pair of steel angle pieces located on the sides of the saw blade. With the help of nuts and bolts, they are connected by a transverse bundle, and the gap between the working part and the sidewalls of the structure will be provided with washers.

On the “angle grinder” you need to pre-tighten the metal band clamp with a screw tie down. Then you need to attach the double-folded metal strip to the holes for the sliding stop. The stand and clamp can be combined, but in this situation the metal strip will be too thick.

Then, in the gearbox of the future tool, you will need to make several holes for the bolts. For this purpose, the body is disassembled, and the points where drilling will take place are indicated. With the help of the holes made, the axial handle is fixed, because the “standard” handle will not allow making a good cut, even if the master has very strong hands.

The handle is created from a metal tube or rod. Designs can be shaped like horns or braces. The ends of the element with which it will be attached to the gearbox must be provided with holes for installing fasteners.

You also need to make a barbell that will regulate the process. For this purpose, you need to take a piece of a metal rod, make a loop from one end of it, rivet it slightly and make a hole for the front stop bolt.

The other end of the rod needs to be threaded, which will allow you to connect it to the handle. In advance, one strong nut should be screwed onto this thread, and after the structure is assembled, the second. By lowering and pulling them, you can adjust the cutting depth. By the way, if you use a drill instead of an angle grinder, you can make a similar tool.

Thus, you can independently make a good circular saw out of an ordinary angle grinder, with which you can cut various materials.

How to make a stationary or manual circular with your own hands

A hand-made circular saw is an excellent tool that allows you to solve a large number of household and other tasks. In fact, it is not difficult to make this device on your own, even in that situation, if you do not have any special skills, the most important thing is to understand at least a little the principle of processing metal alloys.

The materials needed for the job can be found in the home workshop or in the garage. So, circular from a circular saw do it yourself is made of the following elements:

  • Corner of strong steel;
  • Rectangular shaped tube;
  • Engine.

The finished circular saw can be positioned on a workbench. If you don’t have one, you will have to make the table yourself. The engine can be taken from an old tiller or washing machine.

Compact benchtop machine

Above we talked about how to assemble a hand circular. Now we will tell you how to turn this device into a stationary one. This process involves the manufacture of a U-shaped bed from a pipe, as well as the installation of a transverse arm. The lower ends of the structure should bend horizontally in the direction of the cut. They are bolted to the table. Stability is provided by additional supports.

Lever mobility provided by cutting the horizontal segment into two identical parts, which are fixed to each other with clamps. The saw blade is attached to the vertical element of the bed with clamps.

Benefits

When a tool (and even more so a machine) is produced independently, then its design, as a rule, takes into account as much as possible those needs and tasks that are supposed to be solved with its help:

  • So that molded parts do not have burrs and creases during cutting, it is necessary that the circular saw has an adjustable speed of movement relative to the cut plane (so that the burrs are removed by the cutting edges of the saw teeth);
  • Suppose you need to make not the usual transverse trimming of molded products, but at a certain angle. In this case, it is necessary that the workpiece be fixed in order to avoid backlash during cutting;
  • And of course the price. The miter saw can be literally assembled from scrap materials, moreover, from parts that cannot be used anywhere else. Economy. Why not a decisive advantage?

All these features are inherent in home-made designs of cross-cutting machines, which makes their production on their own justified and profitable.

Aligning Workpiece Guides

It should be a strip of chipboard or thick plywood, only here it is no less than 10 cm wide, since it will have a much greater length. The guide should be 20% longer than the table, so that it can always be fixed with a clamp in two places. It is installed closer to the front edge of the table at the desired angle to the saw blade slot, and secured with clamps.

It is not necessary to fix the guide on the self-tapping screws at all, since in this case it will be impossible to correct the cutting angle if necessary. The guide for the blanks, of course, should be one, since the second simply cannot be fixed with a clamp in 2 places. When working on such a facing, the workpiece must be tightly pressed against the previously fixed guide with one hand, and with the other (right) cut the workpiece with a circular saw.

Required materials and tools

First you need to decide on a project. Above, attention was paid to what the miter saw can be constructed from:

  1. The most technologically advanced and accessible material is sheet wood-containing materials. They are easy to cut to the required dimensions using the same existing parquet flooring (part of the future machine);
  2. The frame structure of the bed with elements of chipboard or plywood is more difficult and more expensive to implement, and therefore is not always justified;
  3. Self-tapping screws are required.

In addition to construction materials, the following elements will be needed to design the trimming device:

  • Clamps (2 pcs.);
  • Circular saw (“parquet”).

If a technology is selected for the production of a bed that does not contain steel parts and elements, then in this case the tools will require:

  • Screwdriwer set;
  • Hacksaw (for auxiliary purposes, when it will be inconvenient to use the existing “parquet”).

It’s amazing how little it takes to build a DIY miter saw.

Of angle grinder

Miter saws are capable of cutting wood, iron, plastics and other materials.

The most famous facing is based on the use of an angle grinder.

If you can do everything correctly, your device with a broach will have the following options:

  • Disk rotation speed. 4500 rpm;
  • Cutting distance. About 350 millimeters.

If necessary, trimming is dismantled from the unit and is practiced as an ordinary hand tool. A big plus is that the homemade device is versatile and can be easily disassembled.

Let’s consider how the manufacturing procedure takes place.

  1. Place the swivel mechanism of the angle grinder on the pivot of the implement wheel. Its fastening is made by means of a ball bearing. The recommended size is 150 millimeters, but larger ones will also work.
  2. Ears are welded on the outer side of the bearing. They are designed to secure the base of the unit. Install with M6 bolts.
  3. The holder should be covered with a protective cover so that chips do not fly on you during operation.
  4. The broaching problem is easy to solve. To create it, take shock absorbers from a truck. Even if they are not in working order, this is not a problem. Remove any lubricant from the shock absorbers, drill holes for ventilation and cover with a mesh to prevent chips and dust from entering the cavity.
  5. Install the soft start module. Thanks to it, you will not experience sudden jerks when starting the trimming.
  6. The final stage is the installation of the saw blade guard.

Depending on the supplied disc, the unit can be used for metal or wood, for trimming pipes. But be aware that there may not be enough unit power to cut pipe ends. Decide on the specifications of your angle grinder to find out if the machine is capable of cutting pipes, or if it is only suitable for working with wood.

This design has two important drawbacks.

  1. To adjust the precision of the cut, wood residues are used first. Then the thrust is fixed, and you can start working.
  2. The unit makes a lot of noise when cutting pipes and working on iron.

how to make a miter saw from a circular

How to make a miter saw with your own hands?

  1. Varieties
  2. Tool creation
    • From a hand-held circular saw
    • Of angle grinder
    • Manufacturing of a complex unit
    • Pros and cons

    The miter saw is created by hand on the basis of the existing equipment. A hand-held circular saw, an angle grinder (angle grinder). And when mounting disks of a specific type, a home-made device can be used to cut a profile on a metal-plastic base, pipes, which will increase the area of ​​its use.

    Tool creation

    It is possible to make a miter saw with your own hands, taking the available equipment as a basis.