If the motor housing on your saw is open and could collect metal chips tape a piece of cloth over the openings to protect the motor windings and bearings while you cut.
Cutting siding with mitre saw.
These include miter saws chop saws table saws and handheld circular saws.
Install a plywood blade backward onto a circular saw.
Then retract the blade guard to start the bevel cut.
Failing to do this can result in your circular saw cutting into the workbench or table beneath the siding itself.
The blade features an ultra thin laser cut kerf and a non stick silver ice coating that protects blade from heat gumming and corrosion.
I show you a simple wooden jig i built myself to cut new aluminum soffit.
The climbing phenomenon is defeated.
Miter cut on a wide board clamp your workpiece for bevel cuts.
You should position the siding so that the cutting line is hanging off the edge for obvious reasons.
This jig can also be used to easily cut vinyl.
Release it as soon as the blade is fully engaged in the wood.
Cut aluminum with your miter saw making accurate cuts on aluminum rods tubes and angles is easy with a miter saw and a blade designed to cut nonferrous metal check the label.
Once again this contributes to giving the vinyl siding a clean cut.
Mark the area to cut and slowly feed the blade into the siding.
The cut is cleaner and the job is done much more safely.
Best 12 metal cutting blade.
It saved me countless hours of work.