Cutting Precision Holes In Light Sheet Metal

Wax your saw blade before cutting sheet metal.

Cutting precision holes in light sheet metal.

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. Position the pattern on the sheet metal where the hole needs to go and draw a line around it using a permanent marker. For clean precise holes in thin sheet metal make a wood sandwich.

They look like scissors and work fine with sheet metals like brass aluminum tin steel etc. Knockout punches circle cutters are also pretty famous for creating holes in metal sheets. Some items cut clean and some create rough and sharp insides. Hot metal chips will fly everywhere.

The wooden bread layers of the sandwich keep the sheet metal flat and prevent the drill bit from wandering as it bores through the sheet metal. Punching is a metal cutting process used to create cutouts and holes of various shapes sizes and dimensions in a metal sheet. Simply sandwich the sheet metal between two pieces of wood and clamp everything down on a table or workbench. In larger holes use a deburring tool.

Measure from the edges of the sheet metal to the point at which you wish to place the hole. Let s discover some awesome saws to cut a round hole in sheet metal. Create a paper pattern of the size and shape of hole you wish to cut. Part 2 of 2.

Tin snips or aviation snips are one of the most widely used tools to cut sheet metals. In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter. In small holes finger twist larger twist drill over the hole. There are some cuts that you can do with decent tin snips.

Such as straight cut snips left cut the right cut etc. Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade. The process is accomplished through a shearing force that removes material from the sheet of metal leaving a square rectangle or another desired geometric design. Smooth out the hole.

Open the snips all the way at the beginning of a cut and seat the sheet metal as deep as possible into the opening this provides you with maximum leverage. In response to a question about h. In this 2 part video tubalcain shows several different methods of cutting holes in sheet metal. You can cut mild steel up to about 3 8 in.

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.