Cut Sheet Metal With Diamond Blade

Any continuous or sharp toothed blade that is used for metal cutting will work.

Cut sheet metal with diamond blade.

Metal lath and hardware cloth can be cut with a tin snips but there s an easier way. It will say on the side of your saw blade whether or not your blade is designed to cut through metal. 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. Mount a diamond blade in your angle grinder and use it like a saw to cut the mesh.

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. For thin sheets of metal you can use tin snips to cut through it. 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. Now a single blade can outlast as many as 70 abrasive discs giving you the lowest cost per cut.

Now cut metal like never before introducing the new ridgid diamond cut blade with up to 70x more life. 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. This is because a wood cutting circular saw has an open motor housing. An aluminum diamond plate is basically a sheet of aluminum on which a recurring pattern of raised diamonds is embossed or stamped.

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. Although we use the word cut loosely in most articles the truth is that diamond blades don t cut at all they grind. To make detailed cuts in sheet metal use a dremel blade. A power jigsaw metal cutting blade that should be fine toothed with approximately 48 teeth per inch.

Then grip the saw with both hands and push the blade through the metal to cut it.