Cutting Thin Aluminum Sheets

Use cnc router bits for cutting aluminum carbide endmills cnc routers use a variety of specialized cutters that should not be used with aluminum.

Cutting thin aluminum sheets.

Clamp the aluminum down. Clamp the sheet metal in place on your work table to hold it in place while. Place the metal on a hard surface to score it and on long pieces do the bending with the score place along a sharp edge of a bench and if necessary clamp the fixed piece with a long piece of flat wood to prevent buckling the metal while bending it back and forth. Downcut spirals compression cutters and the like have no place in aluminum work.

Sheet aluminium can be cut without the need for a guillotine or tin snips which tend to deform the metal. You want cutters specifically made for aluminum. Align the tin snips with the sheet metal. Then bend the sheet back and forth a few times to snap it.

How to cut fold sheet aluminium. Set the piece of aluminum on a table or over sawhorses and position it so the cutting area has open space underneath it. Most tin snip manufacturers color code their. And you can use the same technique anytime you need a straight cut on aluminum or other light gauge sheet metal even steel.

Clamp or hold a straightedge or square along the cutting marks and score a line with the tip of a sharp utility knife blade. How to cut thin aluminum. Make your first cut. Bench mounted tools such as shears or band saws cut aluminum sheet relatively slowly and with varying amounts of accuracy.

To cut the sheets of metal rathe. Using a softer piece of material such as wood as a backer will allow the chisel to push through the metal and prevent wear on the chisel s tip. Mark the start and stopping point of your cut with a grease pencil or some similar implement that marks on sheet metal. Using tin snips for thin sheets 1.

Choose between red blue or yellow snips based on the cut direction.