Evolution Mutipurpose 14" Chop Saw from Menards

I'm gonna be doing an unboxing today of this evolution multi-purpose saw I bought it at Menards today price point was two hundred and twenty three dollars I think there was a rebate on it so I'll get that back later it is a evolution of the 14 inch carbide tip chop saw the box says that it is accurate reliable powerful and can cut multi materials including steel aluminum wood with embedded nails as if that really have her happens plastic and more so I've been using my hitachi abrasive chop saw for all my steel fabricating work for almost two years now and it works just fine I got my Hitachi right over there and it works just fine if you have an abrasive saw you know that it can be a bit messy it can be I mean it's obviously loud but what I eventually ended up discovering through some videos is that evolution makes a type of a a metal saw that is called a cold cut and so I started looking into it a little bit more and more and I saw a lot of comparative videos online comparing the Evo saw 360 or I think it's called the Evo saw 380 with a bunch of other different kinds of cells and mostly abrasive saws and then in the time comparison I saw that the Evo saw or the evolution saws were doing a bulk of the work in half a fraction of the time to seconds compared to 13 seconds with an abrasive saw I had some guys in my shop a couple of weeks ago and as five people were working inside of the shop all at the same time he's working on their own little individual project I noticed that a line was forming at the abrasive saw and that's that's eventually what got me looking into a quicker solution to cutting the steel mostly angle iron tube square tube some medium gauge steel and at Menards I discovered that they had a type of evolution saw that says it's a multi material cutting saw fourteen inch blade carbide blade and I went to evolutions website and was disappointed to learn that they didn't have this particular saw at least not this saw that had this look on their website and the guy at Menards convinced me that there might be a partnership between evolution and Menards and they make specifically this version for the Menards manufacturer there are other versions of the evolution saw that's a multi-purpose saw and has a lot of the same literature on it that has a slightly different look so i'm going to be doing an unboxing of this evolution stock today and i'll do a set up for later and we'll do some cutting on it too [Music] [Music] so there's your locking mechanism there's the blade locking button [Music] here's the blade guard for one piece here's the carbine tiny notches [Music] it's definitely transportable a little bulky but transportable lock it down [Music] you know I'd say that's 50 pounds which is what you want I mean you want it to be somewhat heavy [Music] there's a locking mechanism here on the on the trigger so no axes here here's your ice [Music] a bench this bench seems a little thin which I noticed in a lot of the reviews for the other saws from evolution I can't find this one on their website in fact I actually scanned the QR code on the box and it came up empty as if they don't even have a product a dollar which really made me concerned but I figured the price point on this one was 230 I think the Evo saw 380 was 380 bucks so we're talking about a hundred fifty bucks less it still does the same quality of work for me for me it's worth the same amount comes with an allen wrench down here I assume that's probably for taking [Music] there's a housing here and here the sailin Rindge takes these off wrench I believe actually take the blade off now the blade I saw also at Menards and it's also available on Amazon the blade is a rage 3 5 5 TCT and now that I think about it that's the model that's the name of the model rage 1 rage 2 I think they even have a rage 3 in rh4 I think those are actually smaller more circular saw blades but the raves 2 is with this one I think most closely compares to the rage 2 being also available on their manufacturer website and on Amazon this blade is different than the blade on the Evo saw 380 in a couple of ways it's different in its design and I don't know what the blade on the Evo saw says but this blade says that it's for the rage evolutions chop saw multi-purpose tungsten carbide tip blade ideal for cutting mild steel up to six millimeters or a quarter inch thick aluminum plastics and wood also used for with the rage sauce system 1600 rpm 14 inch blade twenty five point four millimeter Arbor six millimeter quarter inch thickness steel and [Music] it has a specific directional for blade rotation at first glance I like its weight [Music] I like I like the saw guard this part sees fear heavier in thickness and sturdier than this part here this parts got a the guard here has a little bit of a wobble on it I suspect that's because it's intended to you know go through the opening and closing it has a little bit of a rubberized stopper here on the inside so as that comes to a stop and clicks shut you know after a hundred times you probably don't have to worry too much about things getting nicked up because there's a rubber stopper on the inside it looks like a pretty nice high tension spring here saw locking mechanism down there a little card about your fence positioning it goes up to 45 degrees same allen wrench works here on the backside of the fence to dial in to 45 degrees I do have a chop saw that has a quick-release here on the vise but this one doesn't have that which I'm okay with but the deck does seem a little bit a little bit and I know that the Evo saw has some sort of a chip tray down here that you can pull out and discard all of those chips that will come off when you're cutting through metal this Evo saw from Menards does not have that tray it does come with a little fitting here that apparently can be set inside of to allow you to hold ground even square bar in here and allow you to get more sides to clamp down onto it which this comes off I guess I'll plug it in and give it a shot so one of the comments that I heard about the rage to saw which is also a 14 inch saw with this exact same blade just different housing as far as I can tell that's the only difference the rage 2 has a type of a collapsing guard here that comes in from both the top and the bottom of the saw and as you pull the saw down it comes open both ways but one of the concerns that I read and I heard about the rage 2 saw system was that it was a loud system it doesn't bother me much when I'm in the shop here it's gonna get loud and I have protective ear safety equipment for that so but I thought to go ahead and give it a spin here just so that you can kind of hear now that'll sound different when we put some some steel in there so you'll get a sheet of steel or a little bar steel and we'll try that up alright I have here a piece of steel that measures in at about a quarter of an inch what I'm mostly trying to attain here and the reason why I buy the saw is I'm looking for a mostly burr free a quick solution to cutting my steel so that I can get back to actually working with it and welding it and getting creative with it so mostly a straight cut because the abrasive saw doesn't oftentimes give that to me there's a an extra step afterwards of cleaning it up and I'm hoping that this is a time saver but also doubles as a multi-function saw I can throw some lumber in here and I can you know whatever maybe even some plastic I don't often time to work with plastic but maybe even get that in here too so let me go ahead and get it going alright so the heater just kicked on so we're going to compete with that noise but um [Applause] all right let's see what we have I'm not used to these little shavings to show you these shaving town I'll bet there's the piece that cut off here's the cut off the piece looks like I got one big decent burr at the end but that'll knock off pretty easily I might even be able to fold that back and forth a couple of times that off [Music] yeah so there's a here's the cut on this piece this is a piece that came off [Music] I'm pretty happy with that that's pretty clean this is the part that cut this is a raw side device I'm very happy with that that was quick and it's pretty clean another interesting detail is that it's a cold cut so you're not reaching down grabbing a hot piece of steel when you're all said and done leaves a neat little color in there kind of like a hologram which is kind of what is left over all these little tiny shavings that I'm not used to the abrasive saw he's had a neat color to them there's somebody call it man glitter so so now this is what I have left over this is my five products which you know will go up into the vacuum it's definitely more granular thicker pieces than when I use the abrasive saw the abrasive saw one thing that I was concerned about the abrasive saw was the by-product is a dust both from the blade itself and from the steel it seems to obliterate it in such a way so that it actually turns into an airborne particle and I'm often times using the chop saw the abrasive one with some sort of a respirator this and although it's still good to have a respirator in the shop I don't see as much concerned with with particles that are this large if they come through the air they're gonna come right back down in fact when I was chopping just a second ago one piece did come off kind of get me in the forearm a little bit and it's I think hot coming right off of the blade but it wasn't enough to to hurt [Music] so I'm working on a lamp and it's gonna be a tall lamp and in order to get some height in there I thought I would creatively weld these six small lights together and one problem that I was having with the abrasive saw is when I was cutting in on the abrasive saw it requires so much tension for over such a long period of time that the piece was shifting ever so slightly inside of the device and every single time I took a cut off he's here Gatling gun like it was not giving me a straight edge so I'm going to eventually build off the top of this as it stacks and creates the height on my lamp this needs to be flat this needs to be nearly as flat as I can get it almost perfectly fine so now I uh called a down into device we take my speed square if the if the fence and the deck here is then I should be pretty straight here [Music] and not so much here [Music] I want to clamp that down [Music] and first fruits one thing that I I know I'm not going to like about this fence in this deck here is that it seems a little seems a little thin where we have here on the fence this is 3/16 maybe just a hair over 10 gauge definitely not 3/16 yet so just a hair over 10 gauge and as I crank down the vise I can see a little bit of of action back here on the back side go ahead and get a couple of other things to see if I can get this in there perfect okay I was able to get a washer and a couple of small cut out pieces back in here because the flange is wider and its diameter than these six pieces of steel pipe actually make up and in its circumference so I'm going to go ahead and give this a rip it's in there pretty good the fences that's the part that I'm mostly concerned about and if people are critical of of this I think it'll be because of this part of the machine down here and I'm happy with the cut so far let's see how this one see how this one goes [Music] [Music] [Applause] so I noticed that while I was cutting and as my concern was mostly not that this was going to be perfect here mostly my concern is up against that fence and [Music] due to the vibration of the Machine and perhaps that I didn't clamp it in right don't think I got a perfect bet on that I think I got pretty close though closer than I was getting with the abrasives so but I noticed as I got closer to the bottom of the cut that started to started to turn a little bit inside of the inside of that clamp so if I give myself a nice smooth surface here on my table let me go get as long as this is flat here that's okay that's its that's workable it seems like most of my angle is I'm a little bit high on this side so I can't remember what position I headed in but it looks like I'm off by less than less than an eighth of an inch maybe but I think I can actually work with this I can take that over to the bench grinder and if I didn't have six pipes to cut through it probably wouldn't require any cleaning at all but I don't think there are any birds on there there's a tiny one there and this yeah this I can tell is the bottom of the cut I can tell right here that that was the bottom of the cut it looks like it just started to turn just barely so here's ultimately my concern if a straight cut is what you're going for which oftentimes that's kind of like going forward you don't want to spend too much time sitting at the bench kind of grinding it away checking it for 90-degree angles or whatever the back fence here might be the difference between this song and the Evo 380 I don't have that song know what the bench for the fence is like that on that saw I do know that the blade is different it looks it has a different look to it it looks typically it looks more like a typical saw like a miter saw blade does different but when I go to clamp down on this you can see a little bit of give right there see I'm turning the clamp right there and you can see that right in here I'm losing now I'm going to loosen it up so you can see it and see it come back and I don't know what's what straight loosen up see it's gonna be cut [Music] cold-cut I like that there are no burrs inside of that piece there this is a piece that came off see what we got that's a nice nice clean-cut the level here see it's just not [Music] it's number one direction the other let me double-check and this side off cuz it that's not level there [Music] [Music] [Music] you got a good girl just pop it all right I'm trying to see if that's just more more or less level than before oh yeah that's level on that side [Music] that's it simple it's not perfect on this side [Music] so that work it's not perfect but it's a lot better than the abrasive saw that's my review of the evolution for teenaged multi-purpose chop saw I've used it today just for cutting steel and I assume if it cuts the steel in this way probably does a pretty decent job for wood and plastic or whatever other aluminum materials and it says that it can come through on the box I already have a miter saw for my for a cutting wood so I didn't cut wood with it today I was really happy with a couple of details I bought the saw because I wanted to make for quicker work and I want to make for cleaner work and this saw does that it gives me the quicker cleaner option compared to the abrasive saw that I was using before one one detail there's only one detail that I don't like about it that is the flexing on the fence and the back of the vise I think I might be able to find a way to work around that I'll probably end up just getting some some heavier gauge steel and mocking up a fence just like they have design on the evolutions with not just drilled into it in the exact same way justjust heavier steel so that I can get a more durable clamp into that vise and so that there's no bending on the end and I'm sure to have my cuts perfectly straight cuts which is what I'm going for when I'm welding my sculptures together the price point on it was $230 right now and through January the 11th I think they have a rebate 11 percent off but another detail that I did notice that the one sold at Menards seems to only be sold at Menards I didn't find this evolution saw on Amazon I didn't find any information on their website about it but I do compare all of the information from this evolution saw to what they call the rage to

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Published: Tue Jan 07 2020