Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade.
Cut sheet metal with circular saw.
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Cut metal with your circular saw.
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Use a circular saw to make long straight cuts in thicker sheets of metal.
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You can cut mild steel up to about 3 8 in.
Use a pair of snips if you want to avoid power tools altogether and are working with thinner more flexible metal or need to make curved cuts.
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Clamp the metal to workbench.
It may not be an obvious choice but fitted with the right blade a circular saw is a great metal cutting tool.
By turning the circular saw the blade starts cutting the metal at its desired speed.
Not just any saw though specific metal saws.
To safely and efficiently cut through metal with a circular saw you ll need to operate at a maximum no load rpm of 5 000.
Not all metal cutting circular saw blades will cut thin sheet materials such a roofing and metal trim.
One of the main problems with using a wood cutting saw to cut through metal is the speed as most of these saws go well beyond the recommended speed for cutting metal.
Otherwise you may end up overheating the metal and cause serious harm to yourself and your power tools.
This is because a wood cutting circular saw has an open motor housing.
Be aware that while most saw blades should be installed with the label visible worm drives are mounted on the opposite side.
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Metal cutting circular saw.
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 torque.
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.
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To cut thin materials you need a blade with more teeth and a tooth configuration that will.
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In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter.
This helps in the uniform cutting of the metal piece.
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Tips and care to be taken.
A metal section to be cut must be hung over the edge of the blade.
