How To Cut Round Covers With Sheet Metal

From round and square bar to base plates and gussets you ll find that we have not just a few pre cuts in stock but bins and bins of pre cut metal products all stored indoors and in prime condition.

How to cut round covers with sheet metal.

Put your ink to the use and mark the hole center. Get as much of the metal as you can with each stroke in order to make the cut as smooth and steady as possible. Tired of getting fingers cut on sheet metal while using tin snips. At first locate the center of the whole.

Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade. In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter. Lift the cutoff strip and roll it to the side to prevent it from binding on the tin snips handle. Check out this video.

You can cut mild steel up to about 3 8 in. Press the jaws of the snips down as firmly as you can then open up wide again. Open the cutters as wide as you can at the start of each stroke and make long smooth strokes. This video demonstrates the proper use of sheet metal duct crimpers.

Wax your saw blade before cutting sheet metal. Place the sheet metal on top of the workbench and lay out your pattern using a tape measure pencil and straightedge. Repeat this until you reach the end of the metal. Now it s time to use that center punch.

Use your center punch to strike at the center of the hole. Squeeze the handles to cut the metal along the guideline. This will create dimples in the sheet. Hot metal chips will fly everywhere.

But you have to sacrifice with the cutting depth. Industrial metal supply is one of the only metal suppliers to offer pre cut pieces of steel aluminum and stainless. If your project requires curved cuts make an easy economical and adjustable. Apart from hand nibbler there are electric nibbler drill powered nibbler and pneumatic nibblers and so on.

The way of cutting sheets with nibbler is to cut punches out of a tiny metal sheet and repeat the process until you get your desired dimension. Apply a thin layer of paraffin or saw wax to the blade just enough to cover the surface before making any cuts in the metal. Next use a compass to outline the edge of the hole. Cut metal with your circular saw.

It may not be an obvious choice but fitted with the right blade a circular saw is a great metal cutting tool. Long straight cuts are easier to make with large tin snips.