I have a small air driven body saw. It is like a minature sawzall, complete with minature hacksaw blade teeth on it. Blades are replaceable. It has sawed yards of sheetmetal. Very fast, very cheap, very accurate. Fairly safe. Wear gloves. If it comes outa the sheet metal, it will dance for a while before you get your finger off the trigger. Mine came from the local Lowes hardware store, very reasonable in price for what it does. Cutoff wheels are for just that, cutting off something. Not for slitting it. Nibblers are slow.
Richard --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You wrote:<<buy an air compressor so that I can use air powered > cutoff > tool>> > > You might want to consider the Nibbler - made for cutting metal - > fits in a > drill - electric or air powered - and "nibbles" little chunks of > metal - > like chewing. Eastwood carries them along with some others. The air > > powered tool is called a die grinder IIRC and you;re right, they cut > really > well - make sure the air compressor has enough capacity to power the > grinder > (which actually has a thin cutting wheel - don't know why it's called > a > grinder) else the tool will keep slowing down. > > I have the die grinder with 3" wheels that are about 1/16" thick - > they > really cut thru auto sheetmetal quickly. I also have an air powered > chisel > set - which I was never impressed with. > > Good luck - you;re entering territory that I have vowed to never > enter > again - the dreaded "Valley of Rust". > ;-) > > > > > Going to Sears today to buy an air compressor so that > > I can use air powered cutoff tool. Dremel cut off > > wheels work fine but they wear out after 3-4" of > > cutting. At $1.20 per wheel thats getting expensive, > > also really slow, and there's a lot of rusty trunk to > > cut out. > > > > --- Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > Since I've only got $175 in my 220D including the > >> battery, I don't > >> > think > >> > that I'll be doing anything to the trunk for quite > >> a while. > >> > >> Microwave oven sheet metal is free, just ask the > >> Frankenheap. > >> But don't look too closely! > >> > >> -- Jim > >> > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
