Hot metal chips will fly everywhere.
Cutting aluminum siding with circular saw.
Circular saw cutting jig for vinyl siding.
Cut metal with your circular saw.
Look for a carbide tipped abrasive cutoff wheel when working with metals like copper lead brass and aluminum as these are all nonferrous metals.
Mark the area to cut and slowly feed the blade into the siding.
It saved me countless hours of work.
Be sure to work slowly in order to maintain the proper form.
I show you a simple wooden jig i built myself to cut new aluminum soffit.
Types of circular saw blades for cutting aluminum.
Use the panel to reduce the risk of snags while cutting.
Metal cutting blade this type of blade has smaller teeth separated by sturdy slots.
These include miter saws chop saws table saws and handheld circular saws.
This jig can also be used to easily cut vinyl.
Thick using a ferrous metal cutting blade.
Secure the aluminum to the saw horses with a clamp.
Install a plywood blade backward onto a circular saw.
As these are easier to cut through you re generally okay to use a cordless circular saw to work with them but it s not advisable for other types.
In our test it cut through rebar like a hot knife through butter.
It is ideal for thinner sheets up to 11 gauge.
Place the piece of aluminum you need to cut on a pair of saw horses.
While cutting at the width of the aluminum siding make use of straight tin snips.
I recently replaced the old weathered aluminum siding on my house with maintenance free vinyl siding.
There are two main types.
Cut across the contours of the aluminum siding with a radial arm saw.
However aluminum also can be cut with a circular saw.
You can cut mild steel up to about 3 8 in.
The cuts can be done by hand with a set of tin snips but squeezing the snips 5 6 times per cut can get really tiring and leaves a somewhat jagged.
This design helps in cutting metal pipes and sheets.
You can t cut through thick blocks of metal with this one however.
I m using irwin to.
Before cutting aluminum with a circular saw determine what type of aluminum you need to cut such as aluminum siding or an aluminum sheet.
