HYCHIKA Electric Saw, 500W Mini Circular Saw 4500RPM with 3 Saw Blades(85mm), Scale Ruler, Pure Copper Motor, Ideal for Home DIY Wood Soft Metal Tile and Plastic Cutting

I recently bought this Mini Circular Saw, and I am absolutely impressed! It's compact but powerful with its 500W pure copper motor that delivers an impressive 4500RPM. It cuts through wood, soft metal, tiles, and plastic with ease—perfect for DIY projects. The saw comes with 3 different 85mm blades, which is a great bonus. I also love the included scale ruler; it makes measuring and cutting a breeze. The handle is comfortable, and it's surprisingly lightweight for how powerful it is. This saw is a fantastic addition to my toolbox, and I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a versatile and easy-to-use tool for precise cutting!

This is very solidly built and a very good price but I think there are some safety and other practical issues. The 'foot', which controls depth of cut is controlled by a switch on the top. Once this is released the trigger, which is on the handle,can be operated. The problem is that there is no safety on the trigger. This is ok once you are used to it but if not it can be dangerous as it is easy to unintentionally turn it on. The second consideration concerns visiblility. You can't get a clear view of the area where the blade contacts the work piece. This can be helped a bit by removing a small guard on the foot but you still can't get a clear view. This tool is meant for fine work so this is usually critical.

I bought this for a specific job where I was sawing upside down in a cramped location. A 150mm circular saw, I do own but it has become increasingly an unwieldy choice, as my jobs move towards lighter-grade work eg laminate flooring etc. In fact, apart from my huge fence job some time ago, where 4” posts were a staple task, most of my DIY work is probably less than 1” thick. Even if not, a lighter weight smaller saw, still works because obviously you just cut from both sides, ergo a 1” cut depth will do all those 38mm etc CLS wood planks from DIY stores. If you only get one single saw therefore, I’d make it this one. There are only two negatives, and they don’t detract from my verdict. One, there’s no laser guide. This means nothing to me, but if you can get one, fine, it definitely makes FAST cutting of a lot of laminate say, more accurate. I did look for a spare to fit, if I could strap the thing on to this saw somehow, and ended up at an online store which did do one quite cheap, but you have to rig it yourself. I suspect hot melt glue or epoxy might be used, and that would be perfectly serviceable. Anyway, I didn’t bother. Second negative, again it’s a qualified one, is there’s no angled cuts possible using the saw plate. IE when I want to drive along a line, but have a chamfer angle or something weird, I cannot adjust to get a tilt on the blade ‘sideways’. Why is this not really a big thing…because the smaller the saw blade diameter, the tinier the depth you can actually cut at an angle. Even my bigger 150mm circular saw, ends up maxing out at maybe a 2” depth of wood, to be cut at 45 degrees say. In short, the mechanism and the plate of the saw, take up maybe a third of the saw depth you might expect to have. Therefore, we could conclude that by the very fact you decide to buy a mini saw, you are not cutting much depth at an angle. I never cut a laminate board at an angle anyway, but a special use case might have you rate this as more important. But those are the only two negatives - I eschew battery power for some things like sawing, because there’s a low power limit quite often set by that decision - I suspect, they even might make the motors lighter and less powerful, to make them lighter, because they know you’ve got to hold not only the weight of the motor, but also the battery weight. So I actively avoid battery powered vacuum cleaners, even little ones for cars, because you have to pay a lot to get a good one and mains power usually means more power. In other words, this mini circular saw, gets the basics right, does them really well. It’s lack of bulk is also assisted by not having a laser sightline, and not having a saw plate that you have an angling mechanism on. There’s one single solitary ‘upgrade’ I did ! There’s a handy width gauge comes with it, that ‘T’ shaped thing you slide in at right angles into the base saw plate, and tighten with a small thumbscrew. On this saw, when you are NOT using the ‘T’ guide, if the thumbscrew is tightened right in, as often is the case so you don’t lose it, the screw protrudes a millimetre out into the face of the saw plate, ie if you saw like this, the base plate is catching and rocking on the surface you are sawing. I solved this simply by adding a tiny washer under the thumbscrew. See pic. But you could easily cut a bit of plastic into a washer shape, and it’d do just as well, to limit the protrusion of the screw from happening. 3 milk carton ‘washers’ would do it I reckon. IT’s great value. Buy leather gloves while you are at it. Decent gloves, jam the tool you are using, if something goes wrong, this is the general principle of how they work! Typically, the gloves get grabbed and drawn into the mechanism/blade, and stop the device dead, instead of your fingers. So wear decent but malleable gloves, you got to feel something through them. It is also quite directional with its sawdust, relatively good, not billowing it absolutely everywhere. a vacuum nozzle stuck on the end of the supplied tube may be possible in some circumstances, even. I just put a sheet under where I was working. The really good applications are probably surgically cutting floorboards to prep for lifting them (I hate to watch tradesmen or others, stick a crowbar under their edges and splinter and snap to all hell), and as mentioned laminate flooring etc. As with all power tools, a set of earplugs is a good idea. Never pick these up from the ground, either have a little bag and wash them later, or throw them, an ear infection isn’t worth it. That’s it. I don’t get paid or pushed to do a review, I just do it if the product has a decent use and does it well or of course, really badly. Take care all.

Great little tool, cut my MDF perfectly. These hinges made dust hose not great but actual machine good

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