Cutting Aluminum Sheet With Grinder

Do not use abrasive grinder type blades to cut aluminum.

Cutting aluminum sheet with grinder.

Show you the fence i built and how it ensures you have a straight cut. Ryan shows us how to hold and move an angle grinder or cutoff wheel to cut 25 thick aluminum 6061 t6 plate. Cutting aluminum sheet metal with a hammer and chisel is relatively straight forward line up the edge of the chisel along the line you wish to cut and strike the chisel with a hammer. If you need something very square your.

Place turn on and cut using an angle grinder is that easy if you don t want precise cuts anymore. Something around 14 18 t p i for aluminum. For a home hobby type job like yours use that harbor freight hacksaw frame with a new high quality not from harbor freight blade. Using a softer piece of material such as wood as a backer will allow the chisel to push through the metal and prevent wear on the chisel s tip.

An angle grinder fitted with an abrasive metal cutting disc works well to cut all kinds of metal including bolts angle iron rebar and even sheet metal. Clamp a square to your extrusion as a guide and take your sweet time. To make a proper cut the first thing you will need is the technical support. But it s impossible to get a proper cut in such tiny effort.

In fact using an angle grinder is quite tricky. But the discs wear down quickly cut slowly and shrink in diameter as you use them. Like i say in the video i have extensive experience using a grinder to cut and shape metal and other materials and only by using the tool to do these thing. To cut the sheets of metal rathe.