Cut Sheet Metal With Diamond Blade

Metal lath and hardware cloth can be cut with a tin snips but there s an easier way.

Cut sheet metal with diamond blade.

This will not only brace it to keep it in place but you ll be able to pull it up as you cut. While a normal sheet of aluminum can be easily cut with the help of a table saw and blade cutting aluminum diamond plate is relatively intricate because of the pattern. Use your nondominant hand to hold the side of the metal. Continue reading below our video of the day step 1 prepare aluminum on the sawhorse.

Hold the side of the metal sheet and put your snips around the edge. Diamond extreme all purpose heavy duty 4 1 2 inch 4 5 x 100 x 7 8 5 8 metal cutting diamond blade for rebar ductile pipe angle iron steel plating and similar materials. 4 3 out of 5 stars 63. It s great on rebar copper pipe galvanized pipe conduit square steel tube and angle steel.

Now a single blade can outlast as many as 70 abrasive discs giving you the lowest cost per cut. Hold the blade down on the sheet metal s surface at the edge of the intended cut. A diamond blade is actually just a round steel core whose edge is coated with tiny diamond particles with a soft metal glue of sorts to hold them together. We recommend using a diamond blade that s labeled as a ferrous metal cutting blade but many tradespeople use a regular masonry diamond blade with good results.

Using firm pressure dig into the surface until you reach the ideal depth of your cut then move forward along the line of your intended incision. Press the dremel blade against the sheet metal. Now cut metal like never before introducing the new ridgid diamond cut blade with up to 70x more life. Although we use the word cut loosely in most articles the truth is that diamond blades don t cut at all they grind.