Cutting Corrugated Sheet Metal Circular Saw

You can also cut the sheet metal with a circular saw but this may cause the cut end to rust prematurely.

Cutting corrugated sheet metal circular saw. Using a circular saw 1. Put on a pair of thick gloves and a welding mask. Todays toolsday video is all about cutting metal with a circular saw. Otherwise you may end up overheating the metal and cause serious harm to yourself and your power tools.

While the blade guard will protect you from most of the sparks. One of the main problems with using a wood cutting saw to cut through metal is the speed as most of these saws go well beyond the recommended speed for cutting metal. Switch out your saw blade for any blade. To safely and efficiently cut through metal with a circular saw you ll need to operate at a maximum no load rpm of 5 000.

You can use a sawing table or a set of sawhorses. I know there are other corrugated metal and circular saw videos out there but the ones i saw were a little rough and since i haven t made a video in a while i figured it d be a decent little. Whether you use an angle grinder or a circular saw the heat damages the edges and the shower of hot sparks can destroy the protective coating and burns the paint finish. After cutting grasp the edge and bend it once or twice to break it off.

Place your corrugated metal on top of your work surface. Cutting corrugated metal with anything producing heat can void the warranty by your manufactures and can make permanent damage to the metal sheets causing them to rust. To cut across the ridges use tin snips. You can now support our channel.