Ozito MCG-960K Metal Cutting Saw — and the Amazon Alternative

Ozito is Bunnings’ house brand, sold in Australia and New Zealand and not through Amazon in any market. If you want the MCG-960K specifically, Bunnings is the only place it exists, and for occasional light steel cutting it is a reasonable budget tool.

The more useful question is what a metal cutting saw actually is, because two very different machines get sold under that name.

Abrasive versus dry cut

An abrasive chop saw spins a resin-bonded disc that grinds through the steel. It is cheap, it works on anything, and it produces a shower of sparks, a glowing hot cut end, heavy burrs and a disc that wears down visibly with every cut. In a woodworking shop, the spark stream is a genuine fire risk.

A dry-cut saw uses a carbide-tipped blade at low rpm and actually cuts the metal, producing chips rather than dust. The cut end is cool enough to pick up, the burr is minimal, there are almost no sparks, and the blade lasts for hundreds of cuts.

The Evolution saw scored here is the second kind. For anyone building steel frames, gates, or machine stands in a shop that also holds timber, that difference is the whole argument.

The running-cost maths

A dry-cut blade costs many times an abrasive disc. It also outlasts dozens of them. Over a single project the abrasive saw is cheaper; over a year of regular steel work the dry-cut saw wins on consumables alone, before counting the time saved deburring.

If you cut steel twice a year, buy the abrasive saw or use an angle grinder.

Feed rate

The mistake that ruins these blades is pushing. Carbide teeth chip when they are forced, and a chipped tooth shows in every cut afterwards. Let the blade come to speed, feed steadily, and let it do the work — the same discipline a fine-tooth mitre saw blade needs.

Clamp the work properly too. A section that shifts mid-cut is how teeth get broken and how a workpiece gets thrown.