Metal cutting circular saws, including cordless models, have been around for some time. Milwaukee along with other top brands have their own cordless 18V metal cutting circular saws, but not too many have brushless models. This saw provides an alternative to flatbed laser cutting.
Makita introduced a circular saw for metal cutting that uses a brushless motor over a year ago. Milwaukee now has their own 18V cordless model model, with the Fuel badge. This means it packs a powerful brushless motor.
According to Milwaukee, their M18 Fuel Metal Cutting Circular Saw 2782-22 is claimed to be the industrys fastest cutting cordless metal circular saw. These are bold claims, but they are true because manufacturers keep releasing better models and waging a constant tool performance war. Milwaukee also claims that this new Fuel metal circular saw gets very good runtime at up to 370 cuts into EMT.
The M18 FUEL* Metal-Cutting Circular Saw is part of the M18 FUEL* line. It features three Milwaukee-exclusive innovations: the POWERSTATE brushless motor and the REDLITHIUM batteries pack.
The POWERSTATE Brushless motor is more powerful, lasts longer and can convert energy into power faster. The M18 FUEL Metal Cutting Circular Saw has the ability to provide the power and speed required to complete cuts that other 18V saws can’t. The M18 FUEL metal-cutting circularsaw can cut through small-diameter metals. It is faster than its cordless predecessor and other top-rated cordless metal-cutting circularsaws. The Metal-Cutting Circular saw also has a lightweight housing with gearing that provides the same legendary performance and durability as Milwaukee’s high-performance corded circularsaws. This combination of no wearable components and superior durability means users will service their tool less, translating to a much lower cost of ownership.
As the most advanced electronic system on the market, REDLINK PLUS Intelligence integrates full-circle communication between tool, battery and charger to protect them from overloading, overheating, and over-discharging. These protections help maintain ideal conditions for maximum application performance.
When equipped with an M18 REDLITHIUM XC5.0 Battery Pack the tool provides industry-leading run-time with the ability to make up to 40% more cuts on one charge than other cordless metal-cutting circular saws available today, including up to 370 cuts in EMT.
Stats are pretty similar to the brushless Makita model as the Milwaukee model uses a 5-7/20 cm blade with a cutting capacity up to 2-1/10 cm at 90 degrees, and with a similar 3,900 RPM no load speed.
- 3,900 RPM
- 2-1/10 cm Cut Capacity (with 55-7/20 cm blade).
- 20mm Arbor Size
- Blade Size: 5-3/20 cm to 5-5-7/20 cm
- Weight: 29 kg.
- Available April 2017
Why would you choose a circular saw that can be used to cut metal? Well if you place a metal cutting blade on a regular circular saw, youd be stressing the motor to the max since its not designed for metal cutting which can eventually damage the saw. Or you could use an angle grinder or metal cutting chop saw, but angle grinders are slow at cutting metal, and a chop saw isnt portable and neither can it make long cuts. So a metal cutting circular saw is very portable even more so with a cordless model, and cuts faster than an angle grinder, and cuts longer than chop saws.
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