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Default I hate sheet metal work

On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:43:18 -0500, thunder
wrote:

On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:14:37 -0600, SteveB wrote:


BTDT. Can't be done. Looks and sounds plausible, but it just shakes
too much, then binds, then goes flying into the next zip code. No clean
edges, either.

Steve


Turn the blade backwards, and go very slowly. The result would be
adequate, just adequate. Personally, I would use manual snips, but the
right snips. Those yellow handled Wiss snips aren't the only ones out
there. There are left cutting, right cutting, and offset snips. A pair
of right and left offsets would make the job considerably easier.

http://www.toolbarn.com/cgi-bin/sear...=aviator+snips


I've had some Wiss snips, and others, and quality/design counts.
The air snips sound good. Haven't cut much tin, but the problem is
always the curling metal. Just makes it all clumsy. For the non-pro
anyway.
I was thinking they might have a toothless circular blade now that
would avoid kickback, like the counter-rotating Dualsaw is supposed to
do, but maybe not. In the demo of that they cut metal.
BTW, I'm not recommending the Dualsaw.
After all, all I know about it comes from Billy Mays.

--Vic