Yup. Screws did in a fair amount of the blades, and then the weld material was second. Had a fair amount of failures where the blade tang goes into the chuck. We had Bosch, Milwaukie, and Rigid saws, and tang breakage rates were the same on all.

Surprisingly, the shorter blades lasted longer.
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