Cutting Steel Sheet Metal

For thin sheets of metal you can use tin snips to cut through it.

Cutting steel sheet metal. To cut straight lines use an electric saw. In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter. You can cut mild steel up to about 3 8 in. Once you have the starter hole work your way out to the desired radius using the correct red or green colored snip.

Then grip the saw with both hands and push the blade through the metal to cut it. Thicker steel like pipes tubes and plates may require the use of power saws and torches. It will glide through 14 gauge material without much hesitation. It may not be an obvious choice but fitted with the right blade a circular saw is a great metal cutting tool.

Hot metal chips will fly. Cut metal with your circular saw. Start by taping both sides of the sheet metal directly over the line you want to cut and clamp the metal to a work station so it doesn t move. Jigsaws and metal cutting band saws are more work but can make most cuts in light to medium sheet metal.

I m using irwin to. A handheld cutting tool fitted with a metal cut off wheel will easily cut through sheet. The attachments will cut sheet metal corrugate pipes powder coated material stainless steel copper aluminum formica plastic and fiberglass. For cutting out holes in sheet metal it s going to be necessary that you begin with a starter hole this can be formed by using the hammer and chisel method to punch through the metal.

Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade. Its head rotates 360 degrees to make any job easy. Steel comes in many different forms and thicknesses.