Cut Sheet Metal With Diamond Blade

It will say on the side of your saw blade whether or not your blade is designed to cut through metal.

Cut sheet metal with diamond blade.

For thin sheets of metal you can use tin snips to cut through it. Clamp the sheet metal to a work table and press the dremel blade against it. Any continuous or sharp toothed blade that is used for metal cutting will work. A diamond blade will give you the cleanest results but they re more expensive than a standard circular saw blade.

A power jigsaw metal cutting blade that should be fine toothed with approximately 48 teeth per inch. This is because a wood cutting circular saw has an open motor housing. Now cut metal like never before introducing the new ridgid diamond cut blade with up to 70x more life. Then grip the saw with both hands and push the blade through the metal to cut it.

While a metal cutting saw has a collection bin to prevent metal chips from getting into the machine a woodcutting saw isn t designed this way. 3 pack of diamond extreme 4 1 2 inch 4 5 high performance metal cutting diamond blade wet or dry with cooling holes for steel rebar sheet metal pipe angle iron and plastics 4 1 2 inch 3 8 out of 5 stars 7. Mount a diamond blade in your angle grinder and use it like a saw to cut the mesh. Now a single blade can outlast as many as 70 abrasive discs giving you the lowest cost per cut.

Although we use the word cut loosely in most articles the truth is that diamond blades don t cut at all they grind. 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. If you do decide to use a wood saw on metal only use a 7 1 4 inch blade and preferably a worm drive blade which provides extra. An aluminum diamond plate is basically a sheet of aluminum on which a recurring pattern of raised diamonds is embossed or stamped.

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