Cutting Rubber Mats With Circular Saw

I need to cut it into for lack of a better term hockey pucks.

Cutting rubber mats with circular saw.

Our machine knives and industrial blades for rubber cutting are in straight circular pointed tip arrow shape toothed serrated scalloped perforoted interlocked blades for guillotine cutting and many other blades shapes. It doesn t even req. Power tools can be hit or miss when it comes to cutting through a rubber horse stall mat. The trick is to have someone slightly pull the mat away from the saw as its cutting to help prevent the saw blade from getting stuck.

I have some 36 in x 36 in 2 in thick rubber mats i need to cut. I also have several yards of hard rubber rod about 2 25 thick. It worked in an outstanding fashion and the average time to cut each mat took about 25 seconds. Drilled four holes in each of those with my drill press 1 4 router bit and counter bored with 3 4 milling cutter.

A circular saw can be used in certain situations. Cutting those mats should not be really should not be an. But what really is the best method to cut stall mats. Once you ve completed the cut you will need to replace the blade on the hacksaw before starting another mat.

You will need another pair of hands to hold the mat for you while the cutting takes place. We easily cut mats in a fraction of the time it would take to use box cutters. Our rubber cutting knives and blades are for slitting perforating rewinding cross cutting die cutting guillotine cutting press cutting and many more. Reading forums people recommend everything from a skill saw to a electric meat cutting knife.

This mats were 6 foot by 4 foot and 3 4 thick. I have access to circular saw table saw jig saw hack saw razor box cutter hunting knife chain saw electric turkey carving knife as someone suggested and drimmel. What type of blade would i need to put on the miter saw to get clean even cuts. I m leaning toward the circular saw but don t know what blade large or small teeth or if i need soapy water as a lube.

We measured out our mats with a chalk line and created a guide by running the carpet blade just once through then while one held the mats the other followed the lines with the hack saw. Ive got a 12 sliding compound miter saw. Its ok to leave cutting marks on the pucks pro. We have used the circular saw as well and it works great with nice clean edge and cuts in no time.