Cut Bent Stainless Steel Sheet

Don t try to cut your stainless steel without clamping it down or it could shift when you re cutting it.

Cut bent stainless steel sheet. Bobco metals provides businesses and home users with fast easy and quality cut to size stainless steel bars sheets of all types like 303 and 304 stainless steel supplies in los angeles ca usa. To prolong blade life rub wax along the length of the blade. Cutting of stainless steel most grades of stainless steel can be cut using standard cutting methods employed for other metals. A hacksaw can cut sheet metal but its shape limits its turning radius and depth of cut.

Clamp your sheet metal down to a work table. The work hardening rate of stainless steel sometimes means heavier equipment and specialist blades or cutting edges are required. Our stainless steel sheet is sold per square meter. The price includes cutting to a straight edge size eg a square or rectangle.

Center mark each bend location by setting the pointed end of the. Put on your safety glasses. Bystronic is a leading global provider of high quality solutions for the sheet metal processing business. How to bend stainless steel sheets.

You can use a jigsaw to cut stainless steel but it isn t the preferred tool of choice. The focus lies on the automation of the complete material and data flow of the cutting and bending process chain. Use clamps you can tighten like f clamps to secure the sheet metal to the table. Measure and mark the bend location along one edge of the stainless steel sheet with the tape measure and awl.

Even with the right blade designed for cutting metal the jigsaw still seems to lock up on its cuts. For a cleaner cut put a strip of masking tape on the top and bottom of the sheet to keep chips from scratching the material. This is our opinion but we can explain why. We cut bend weld metal sheet for you.