...forgot how awesome that tool is. 
If anyone's curious I'm making one saturn SC1.5 out of a wrecked SC2 and a not wrecked SC1 with a blown motor. I think I made a post about this around a year ago. I'm just getting started lolz. I needed to remove the "modified" upper radiator support to get the radiator and associated other stuff out.
You may now go about your business, secure in the knowledge that I'm having fun destructively disassembling a car.
Cordless sawzall with a good blade; likely the most awesome tool of destruction ever made!
I love my sawzalls
sawzall + ball peen hammer + vice grips =
pwn everything.
If I could only take 3 tools into the junkyard, thats all I'd need.
Mine just removed the spring shackles from the no longer installed leaf springs, a hot knife through butter comes to mind
It's even more fun when you chop a roof off. I giggled like a school girl last week when I took a sawzall to a car.
NYG95GA wrote: Cordless sawzall with a good blade; likely the most awesome tool of destruction ever made!
Truer statement I may never have heard.
If you can get your hands on some fire & resue blades, a sawzall becomes a combustionless plazma cutter
I have used a sawzall to remove a car... bit by bit, piece by piece into a dumpster
Mad_Machine, Nice!
I didn't put it in a dumpster but it did end up in a pick up truck
Lenox makes likely the best saw blades in the industry. Many years ago, I worked at a hardware store where we acted as the local dealer. Lenox sent us newsletters about their promotional gimmicks. They had one for a while where they had a body-builder guy cut stuff in half using a sawzsall and their blades. Actually he used several sawzalls, and had an assistant standing by, so when his tool became too hot to hold, or the blade would dull, he would hand it off for a freshly rebladed one.
He cut a Gremlin clean in half in about 19 minutes. He cut an aluminum fuselaged airplane in half in less than an hour. They called him "The Hack-man".
There is a video somewhere of a girl sawing an aries in half in around a minute or less.
What really sucks is when you're cutting box tubing or through a wall and the tip of the blade noses in against the opposite wall. All that reciprocation gets slammed right back into your wrist! Oy!
Every time I go the the hardware store now, no matter what I buy, the buy asks if I forgot saw blades. Nice.
Dan
HappyAndy wrote: If you can get your hands on some fire & resue blades, a sawzall becomes a combustionless plazma cutter
Lowes sells them under the Dewalt brand
Oh hell yeah.....zips through plaster, wiremesh, studs, and nails....doesn't slow down
1slowcrx wrote: Mad_Machine, Nice! I didn't put it in a dumpster but it did end up in a pick up truck
Same here, with a 924. IIRC, It was worth about $24 as scrap!
"Let me get my toolbox"
reaches over and grabs Sawzall case
"Ok, lets go...."
Grtechguy said: Oh hell yeah.....zips through plaster, wiremesh, studs, and nails....doesn't slow down
Yes, its easy to get a bit overeager though. Last weekend I was helping my dad put some vents under the eves of the roof. We were cutting the top edge of the outline of the vent out with the sawzall and suddenly we hit water 
I guess dad didn't remember running the pipe through that section of the wall when he built the place...
We were standing in a shipping wearhouse with a re-usable steel/plywood crate that was 3" too tall for the Penske truck we had rented. With no option for a larger truck we took a trip down to Home Depot and bought the best $54 recip saw we could find. Within 4 minutes we had a shorter crate. It is now back in use as a convertible hardtop crate.
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You don't loosen a radiator , GIGGLES 007 Turn off the valves at both ends. Get a hefty neighbour to come along with a bucket and a roasting tin from the kitchen. Undo one of the valves, allowing some water to run out. Repeat other end, BE careful as the valves have a tendency to rotate. Undo both valves completely, and lift radiator off wall and IMMEDIATELY turn upside down and out the open door. Don't spill the dirty water. When ready to re-install put inhibitor into the system, Fernox being a good one.The blackness is black rust." Magnetite" LATER :- IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO DRAIN DOWN SYSTEM,,DON'T BRING IN NEW OXYGENATED WATER.
Thanks for sharing
Informative canoe is beginning to overstay his welcome .
Luke wrote: Informative canoe is beginning to overstay his welcome
Maybe it's just some of that dry British humour. 
Ever try it on stucco? Maybe just the wrong bit but even the masonry one glowed red.
How do you think I made this cool Impala convertible?
We cut up a lot of cars with a Sawzall at work.
TIP: Keep a spray bottle full of soapy water around to keep the blade cool and slippery.
NYG95GA wrote: Lenox makes likely the best saw blades in the industry.
Fastenal's house brand "Blackstone" is made by Lenox to the same specs as their name brand blades (at least that's what they told me when I worked there). They cost about half of the name beand blades, less if you "have a business and are thinking about opening an account". They even have the 'fire and rescue' blades.
Bob
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