How To Cut Sheet Metal Straight Line

These photo steps show that it can be done using a utility knife.

How to cut sheet metal straight line.

Cutting straight lines with an electric saw. The easiest way to straight cut metal sheet. In this video you ll see how to build a straight cutting angle grinder jig. Make long strokes for long straight cuts.

Squeeze the handles in. Long straight cuts are easier to make with large tin snips. Using tin snips for thin sheets. Placing the guard against a straight edge for making straight cuts in metal.

Wax your saw blade before cutting sheet metal. I have been trying to do it in the s. Using a harbor freight safety guard for a 4 or 4 1 2 grinder. How to cut thin sheet metal and keep it flat.

If you use metal shears to cut thin sheet metal such as duct metal it curls and can be difficult to flaten properly. Lift the cutoff strip and roll it to the side to prevent it from binding on the tin snips handle. How to cut sheet metal method 1 of 4. The examples in t.

Open the cutters as wide as you can at the start of each stroke and make long smooth strokes. This may be a no brainer to most of you but i had to do a lot of repetitive cutting of sheet steel and was looking for the fastest way to do it. Align the tool s blade with your pattern line the penciled line you intend to cut along maintaining contact between the sheet metal and the upper blade of the tin snips.