Cutting Corrugated Sheet Metal Circular Saw

Otherwise you may end up overheating the metal and cause serious harm to yourself and your power tools.

Cutting corrugated sheet metal circular saw.

Put on a pair of thick gloves and a welding mask. Todays toolsday video is all about cutting metal with a circular saw. You can now support our channel. If the corrugated sheet metal is made of aluminum you can cut parallel to the ridges with a utility knife.

Not just any saw though specific metal saws. While the blade guard will protect you from most of the sparks. You can use a sawing table or a set of sawhorses. Place your corrugated metal on top of your work surface.

I know there are other corrugated metal and circular saw videos out there but the ones i saw were a little rough and since i haven t made a video in a while i figured it d be a decent little. Using a circular saw 1. Cutting corrugated metal with anything producing heat can void the warranty by your manufactures and can make permanent damage to the metal sheets causing them to rust. Whether you use an angle grinder or a circular saw the heat damages the edges and the shower of hot sparks can destroy the protective coating and burns the paint finish.

To safely and efficiently cut through metal with a circular saw you ll need to operate at a maximum no load rpm of 5 000. Switch out your saw blade for any blade. After cutting grasp the edge and bend it once or twice to break it off. One of the main problems with using a wood cutting saw to cut through metal is the speed as most of these saws go well beyond the recommended speed for cutting metal.