How To Cut Aluminum Sheet Metal

An air powered sheet metal nibbler or a nibbler head attached to a power drill can cut through galvanized corrugated aluminum sheet as well as flat sheet up to 16 gauge.

How to cut aluminum sheet metal.

Sheet aluminium can be cut without the need for a guillotine or tin snips which tend to deform the metal. Larger presses can be loaded with. Step 5 optional if your project requires cutting a hole in the center of sheet metal draw it on the metal as you would any other cut line. This weakens the aluminium and creates a fracture line.

Place the fracture line over the edge of a table and bend the overhang slightly downwards. Then create a pilot hole within the penciled circle. To cut the sheets of metal rathe. Punch presses use shaped tools to knock out geometry in sheet metal.

Bench mounted tools such as shears or band saws cut aluminum sheet relatively slowly and with varying amounts of accuracy. Industrial cutting water jet.