Saw blade printing

[LCHIEN]

I bought a not too expensive blade for my miter saw a while back just to cut aluminum extrusion. I didn't like cutting them with my pricey ATB crosscut blades with the very sharp beveled teeth. I put it on for the first time
and something seemed odd.
All my other blades I ever used had the printing on the outside of the blade (so you could read it from the end of the arbor) regardless of tablesaw or mitersaw but this one had the teeth pointed such that the writing went on first and the nut went on the clear backside. I double checked three times, sure enough there was an arrow showing counter-clockwise on the printed side.
opposite from the printed arrow on the blade I took off.

Anybody ever see a blade printed on this side? Seems completely counter to normal practice.


This Diablo blade is printed with a clockwise cut direction as viewed from the end of the arbor like every other saw blade I have ever seen.

[cwsmith]

I never have, but remember we live in an age when there appears to be a lot of people who don't know what they're doing, and neither do their supervisors.

CWS

[LCHIEN]

I never have, but remember we live in an age when there appears to be a lot of people who don't know what they're doing, and neither do their supervisors.

CWS

Well, it's not an accident printed on the wrong side because the arrow showing direction of rotation agrees. It's just different than every other blade I've ever seen.

[cwsmith]

That's not to say that the group reponsible for the label graphics didn't foul it up. Believe me, having worked with graphic designers, printers, etc. I've seen a number of foul ups. We used to joke that despite all the so-called 'proofing', no one finds the mistake until after it's printed.

[dbhost]

That is both intentional as can be seen by the arrow of rotation, and also wierd. Very very wierd....

[leehljp]

I have had a couple of blades that had the writing on the "other" side. I can't remember if it was from overseas blades when I lived in Japan or from an import blade to the USA.

Maybe it was from south of the equator where things flow in the opposite direction! In all seriousness, I think it may be a few individual countries' way of printing.

[Jim Frye]

1" arbor hole as opposed to the usual 5/8". Not unusual for a 12" blade. Are there industrial saws out there that are built differently to the ones we usually have? I seem to recall Jim Krenov had an unusual table saw, but I am too close to bedtime to go down to the shop and look through his books to see. Maybe tomorrow.

[twistsol]

Just for fun, Shopsmith uses a 1 and 1/4" arbor hole for their standard saw blades because the saw arbor is mounted over a 5/8" shaft. They have 5/8" arbors available as well. European saws typically are 20mm or 30mm.

[LCHIEN]

1" most common size arbor for 12" saws; 5/8" most common for 10" saws

[LCHIEN]

Maybe the art dept put the arrow the wrong direction and no one caught it and they were making the blades and saw the problem and then the manufacturing dept said don't spend the money or time to make new silkscreens, we''ll just print it on the back side of the blade...

Offsetting errors.

Regardless, it made a nice cut on these 2" x 4" angles now 2 inches long. Actually, it made a very clean crosscut on wood, nearly as good as my Freud Diablo, tempted to leave it on the saw.

[capncarl]

I don’t go by the arrow printed on a piece of paper glued to the blade. I put the blade on with the sharp pointy things facing the front of the saw. Most of my blades that have been soaked during cleaning and resharpened have the paper or screen printing removed anyway.

[LCHIEN]

I look at the way the teeth go as I mount the blade. That's when I noticed that if I did the teeth direction correctly that the writing was on the "wrong side" So I looked for anything else that pointed to a problem but the arrow direction printed on the now back side confirmed that I had the cut direction right.