Cutting Sheet Metal Straight With Dremel

It may not be an obvious choice but fitted with the right blade a circular saw is a great metal cutting tool.

Cutting sheet metal straight with dremel. You can cut mild steel up to about 3 8 in. Wax your saw blade before cutting sheet metal. As you cut one side of the sheet metal will ride up and over the. How to cut sheet metal method 1 of 4.

Cut metal with your circular saw. Next turn the rotary tool onto a medium or high speed to give you the right amount of power required to cut out or through the metal. Choose between red blue or yellow snips based on the cut direction. If you re cutting sheet metal and can t make the cut with a hand tool a dremel rotary tool can do the job.

Simply open the jaws or clamp to accept the shaft insert it and turn it on. It cuts metal almost as easily as a scissors cuts paper. The 678 01 circle cutter and straight edge guide attaches easily to the dremel high speed rotary tool and cuts perfect circles from 3 4 inch to 12 inch in diameter. Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade.

Hold the tool tight. In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter. Place the dremel cutter on the cutting line perpendicularly to the sheet metal. Even so your cut will probably be a little ragged.

Install one of the cutoff wheels or high speed 1 8 inch cutter. Play pause space step 2. Set the rotation speed to 2000 rpm and start the machine. And the long blades make it easy to cut straight and leave a smooth edge.

Loosen the drill head with the kit provided wrench. How to cut sheet metal with the dremel multi tool step 1. Making detailed cuts with. Using tin snips for thin sheets.

Hot metal chips will fly. Before you start cutting position the tool in such a way that the cutting wheel is in a perpendicular state to the metal being cut. If you ve got a lot of straight cutting to do buy tin snips like the one shown in photo 4. The circle cutter has convenient measurement guides in both inches and centimeters so you can cut out the right sized circle every time.

Place a strip of low adhesive tape along the cut line to protect the top surface of the. The cutting wheel designed to cut metal will likely be a spinning disk that sits flat at the end of the shaft.