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Skilsaw Worm Drive Circular Saws

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New TOOLs from Skilsaw, Skil & Flex. Plus we pull apart a worm drive to see why they are strong.

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What happens here

The presenter highlights the Skilsaw Worm Drive Circular Saw, showcasing its ability to cut through a 6x6 pressure-treated timber with ease. He explains that Skilsaw's circular saws, including both corded and cordless models, utilize durable worm drive gearing, which provides significantly more power and longevity compared to standard helical drive saws. Cutaway models are shown to illustrate the internal worm drive mechanism with its bronze worm and wheel, contrasting it with powder metal helical gears found in other saws.

Goal: Explain and demonstrate the benefits of Skilsaw's worm drive circular saws.

Tools and materials

  • 6x6 Pressure-Treated Timber — Demonstrating cutting power of the saws
  • Helical Gear Cutaway Model DeWalt — Visualizing the internal helical gear mechanism for comparison
  • Worm Drive Gear Cutaway Model Skilsaw — Visualizing the internal worm drive mechanism

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last time I almost got it [Music] yeah cares for me all right let's try it again then I'll get out of your way this time all right guys we're off to Nashville we're gonna connect with four major manufacturers of different tools skill saw Eagle flex and skill and one of the things we're gonna be diving deep on is worm drive technology because I hear a lot about it but I've never really fully understood it so today we're gonna pull apart a worm drive saw and see what actually makes a worm drive unit tick and why it's tougher than a regular helical drive or standard Drive saw so without wasting any more time let's get into today's video all right so now this one is actually new as well right yeah well so what makes this better than any other miter saw they're you know like a lot of miter saws out there this is a 12 inch dual bevel sliding miter saw 14 by 4 capacity but what makes this different than any other saw out there and why we got the PTI award and the cover of Popular Mechanics magazine is we put a worm drive on it nobody else is putting a worm drive on their miter saw is we've got our big worm drive motor here attached to a shaft we go into our worm drive gear over here and gives you a tons of power and torque and longevity this tool is built to last and you can go through a Ford I like it's not even there okay so this is a corded worm drive so we actually get to see what worm drive means with this thing so this is the essentially the same saw we've been making since 1924 okay and here's our cordless worm drive this one has been deconstructed a little bit so you can see what's inside of it and you can see from this side from the gear box right here forward is almost identical to our saw our normal 77-year you see you have a bronze worm and a wheel in there it's gonna last forever but then we made it to our most powerful brushless motor and we can plug a 48 volt battery right here all right so here we have a helical gear we have another helical gear right here we've got another helical gear right here this is an actual worm wheel here okay so what show me the actual advantages to this the actual advantage is your tooth engagement here is going to allow you to have a motor with a lot more torque so you can cut a lot harder longer do those long rips and you can see how much engagement I have here versus what I have on a helical gear here also helical gears are going to be powder metal and these are actually CNC but you're gonna last a lot longer for you…

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