It will say on the side of your saw blade whether or not your blade is designed to cut through metal.
Cut sheet metal with diamond blade.
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Clamp the sheet metal to a work table and press the dremel blade against it.
A power jigsaw metal cutting blade that should be fine toothed with approximately 48 teeth per inch.
A diamond blade will give you the cleanest results but they re more expensive than a standard circular saw blade.
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Then grip the saw with both hands and push the blade through the metal to cut it.
A diamond blade is actually just a round steel core whose edge is coated with tiny diamond particles with a soft metal glue of sorts to hold them together.
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.
Any continuous or sharp toothed blade that is used for metal cutting will work.
An aluminum diamond plate is basically a sheet of aluminum on which a recurring pattern of raised diamonds is embossed or stamped.
Mount a diamond blade in your angle grinder and use it like a saw to cut the mesh.
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We recommend using a diamond blade that s labeled as a ferrous metal cutting blade but many tradespeople use a regular masonry diamond blade with good results.
Although we use the word cut loosely in most articles the truth is that diamond blades don t cut at all they grind.
To make detailed cuts in sheet metal use a dremel blade.
Metal lath and hardware cloth can be cut with a tin snips but there s an easier way.
