Why do you need a water supply for concrete cutting?

Question

Why do you need a water supply for concrete cutting?

Answer 1

Keeps the dust down and the blade cool

Answer 2

It's to help keep the saw cool. If it overheats too much, the blade will distort and wobble. It also cuts down on dust and helps lubricate the saw.

Answer 3

to cut down the amount of dust and to lubricate the saw blade.

Answer 4

Water is nature's #1 lubricant and coolant. The blade has diamond teeth but the rest of it is steel. Also keeps the cutting line clean and dust free.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Dust suppression and blade cooling.

Answer 7

cooling the cutting blade requires a steady flow of water

Answer 8

Keeps the blade cool and also cuts down on the tremendous amount of dust otherwise generated.

Answer 9

Water is necessary to both cool the blade and make a slurry that helps cut without cracking.

Answer 10

Have you ever seen concrete cutting?  They do it with a big saw with a lot of water pouring on it.  This washes away the concrete dust and also cools the saw.  You CAN do it without water but it would be a lot slower.  And time is money!

Answer 11

This keeps the blade and the cutting area wet to remove the cutting dust from the cut area, cool the blade, cool the concrete, and prevent dust clouds that would both foul up breathing air and make a dusty mess for some distance from the cutting

Answer 12

Metal holds many small industrial quality diamonds in place. If the bit gets too hot the metal melts and the diamonds fall out. Water cools the bit.

Answer 13

Keeps  the  blade  cool and  washes the  concrete dust away.  (and  keeps the  dust   down  so it is safer to  breathe  around it)

Answer 14

Coolant to remove heat from the saw blade which would lose its abillity to cut.

Answer 15

water flushes the sawing blade ....................