Terrible saw. I'm relagating it to chopping 2x4s, if it can handle that. I'm giving up on cutting any metal at all with it. I've broken tips on 3 blades just trying it out, and that includes 2 Diablo Steel Demon blades. Also broke the fence during testing. They were nice enough to send me another fence but I feel that this saw is just too dangerous to continue trying to cut metal with it. I can cut metal just fine on my regular miter saw and my circular saw with the Steel Demon blades. I really wanted to like this saw but I'm not going to continue destroying blades trying to get it to work. I don't know what is wrong, maybe the speed is too slow. That's why I bought it, for the slower speed to cut metal. Whatever is I'm afraid to try it on any metal again.