Rustyrangie Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 Hi all, this is probably an old one, but I found out it works a treat and is cheap! I needed to cut various bits of 18g steel sheet while restoring my RRC. Cuts over 300mm long were a real pain. 18" Gilbows hurt my wrist, Monodex nibbler ditto, and slow. Jigsaw with metal blade so so. Angle grinder and cutting disc very spectacular, noisy, imprecise and expensive. But old (non pendulum) B&D jigsaw, bought for £1 at a boot sale, with small bit of flexible hacksaw blade worked like a dream. I used a flexible HSS type blade cut into 60mm (ish) lengths. You'll need to cut down the width for about 15mm to fit the jigsaw then away you go. The width of the blade meant it was held against the jigsaw sole plate so couldn't move backwards. I bit of blade cut about 3 metres before it started to lose teeth but you get 4 or 5 blades from a hacksaw blade so who cares. It also leaves the sheet perfectly flat, not like shears. As with all powered cutting operations remember your gloves and goggles! Oh, and I've just picked up a couple of Gunson's colourtunes at another boot sale, (£2 for both) anyone used them on 3.9 V8 efi or LPG? Cheers, Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicksmelly Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 I've just got one of these on the Machine mart vat free day... I can't believe how easy it cuts steel... hardly any effort at all... and it does straight lines and curves. MachineMart cutter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid_From_Hell Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Gabro cutters are also superb, mine was cheap as chips, cuts a strip out and leaves metal flat, does straight lines as the 1st cut then acts as a guide, lovely bit of lit if you can find them, there are differing models, but the bigger one cut quite thick steel Nige Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshlaner2 Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 tryed this tip today works well saves a lot of effort also us old blades as sribbers just grine a point on to them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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