How To Cut Sheet Metal 26 Gauge By Hand

Phil shows you some quick tips and tricks on cutting thick sheet metal.

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00:00 Follow along with a handyman
00:25 Cutting the metal for the valley
01:55 Wiss Snips to cut 26 gauge material
03:31 Why I use straight snips
05:00 Be an American, not an American't

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Transcript:
Hi, I'm Phil Bridges, owner of Straight Arrow Repair. Ever want to know how a repairman fixes things? Well come with me, and I'll show you how I solve problems. Let's make things better together.

All right. So we're starting we're laps over that other rib up there and then we're going to go over 15. Now, if you're working by yourself, this is really handy to do. You go and make yourself a little slit like that. That way you can pop the line to where we're going to next 28 and a half.

If you remember, we measured up from that square over. On this outside edge. Now you can either do a four foot level like so make sure we're on both marks or you can do a chaulk line, from here to there. Particularly if it's a really long cut. This is pretty long.

We get a lot of complaints from my less experienced cohorts, that 26 gauge is hard to cut, and it is. But it's good to have a new set of snips. These are Wiss which open a little bit deeper. W-I-S-S, Home Depot sells them. I've been using Wiss for a long time. I've tried other brands, including Craftsman's, so on, so on, so on, Wiss just seems to do better.

I don't like the new lock that they put on them. It's getting in my way a lot, just like I don't like locks on tape measures because I've gotten used to not having it. So anyway, the biggest thing, is sharp snips, and you're contributing to that cut by you holding down on one side and pulling up on another. So you're pulling up and you're holding down literally trying to tear this sheet. This is 26 gauge, not 29 gauge.

So it's much, much heavier. You see how that tore? It wants to tear. You're just encouraging it with these where you want it to tear. I'm using straights, because most of the time I'm cutting straight lines. You can use left handed and right handed and cut straight.

The problem with that is that it puts your hand on one side or the other instead of in the middle. I'm right handed. I'm tend to be on the right side, but I can tilt and still cut straight. Whereas if I had right hand or left hand, I won't be able to tilt because I'm already more on that side.

But there will be people argue about that. It's been my experience and I'm just trying to help you understand. So now we've cut this angle, 28 half here, 15 here. We're going to take it up and we're going to put it in place.

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