How To Cut And Shape Sheet Metal

One tool is a foot shear or a jump shear.

How to cut and shape sheet metal. If your project requires curved cuts make an easy economical and adjustable. Clamp the wood on top of the metal to the workbench. Cutting straight lines with an electric saw. If you want a sharp 90 bend tap along the crease with a mallet.

Sheet metal cutters and nibblers can be used for cutting irregular shapes and for cutting up big sheets but they cannot cut holes less than 25 to 50mm across. Place the sheet metal on top of the workbench and lay out your pattern using a tape measure pencil and straightedge. There are three tools that kevin caron uses a lot to get a precise cut from a thin piece of metal. Another tool is a plate shear for cutting slightly.

Cut metal with your circular saw. Hold the tool tight. Hot metal chips will fly everywhere. Put on a pair of work gloves before you wax the saw to protect your hands.

Install one of the cutoff cutters. 2 x research source. Mark the cut line with adhesive tape and draw your cut lines. Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade.

It may not be an obvious choice but fitted with the right blade a circular saw is a great metal cutting tool. Mark a bend line and place the sheet metal on the edge of your bench. You can cut mild steel up to about 3 8 in. Next place the wood parallel and slightly behind the bending line.

In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter. The other tools mainly make round holes and to use them you start by drilling a small pilot hole. Loosen up the drill head with the provided wrench.