How To Cut Thin Sheet Metal

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How to cut thin sheet metal. Using a chisel and hammer is the most basic form of cutting sheet metal. These photo steps show that it can be done using a utility knife. Cutting straight lines with an electric saw. Put on a pair of safety glasses leather gloves and earplugs.

Tin snips or aviation snips are one of the most widely used tools to cut sheet metals. Using tin snips for thin sheets. The illustrations are for a small bracket but i have cut 3 foot long pieces using this method. How to cut sheet metal method 1 of 4.

Simply line up your chisel along the line you are going to cut and strike the back of it with a hammer. Choose between red blue or yellow snips based on the cut direction. There are some cuts that you can do with decent tin snips. If you ve hit it hard enough the chisel will cut the sheet metal if it s thin enough.

The blade may heat up quickly which will cause it to dull so work slowly and take frequent breaks from cutting. Fit your metal cutting blade into your hacksaw or jigsaw. They look like scissors and work fine with sheet metals like brass aluminum tin steel etc. Such as straight cut snips left cut the right cut etc.