Cutting Straight Line Sheet Metal

Open the cutters as wide as you can at the start of each stroke and make long smooth strokes.

Cutting straight line sheet metal.

Cutting straight lines with an electric saw 1. 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. Place the sheet metal on top of the workbench and lay out your pattern using a tape measure pencil and straightedge. Tape the sheet metal and secure it in place.

Long straight cuts are easier to make with large tin snips. Make long strokes for long straight cuts. An well known trick when cutting with your plasma cutter is to clamp a metal straight edge to the metal so the arc is directly over your cut line. This way you can simply press the edge of the torch cup against the straight edge and slowly make a straight cut.

I could never get a perfectly straight line when cutting longer cuts on sheet metal. Metal is difficult for saws to cut and rubbing wax along the blade. Apply masking tape to both sides of the sheet metal directly over the. Wax your saw blade before cutting sheet metal.

In this video you ll see how to build a straight cutting angle grinder jig. Recently it clicked in my head to utilize an old trick when making straight cuts with a plasma cutter. I have been trying to do it in the s.