Cutting Aluminum Sheet With Grinder

To make a proper cut the first thing you will need is the technical support.

Cutting aluminum sheet with grinder.

In fact using an angle grinder is quite tricky. Do not use abrasive grinder type blades to cut aluminum. Clamp a square to your extrusion as a guide and take your sweet time. Show you the fence i built and how it ensures you have a straight cut.

Instead we recommend using a diamond blade that s rated to cut ferrous metal. To cut the sheets of metal rathe. For a home hobby type job like yours use that harbor freight hacksaw frame with a new high quality not from harbor freight blade. But it s impossible to get a proper cut in such tiny effort.

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. Ryan shows us how to hold and move an angle grinder or cutoff wheel to cut 25 thick aluminum 6061 t6 plate. If you need something very square your. 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.

Place turn on and cut using an angle grinder is that easy if you don t want precise cuts anymore. But the discs wear down quickly cut slowly and shrink in diameter as you use them. Something around 14 18 t p i for aluminum. 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.