How to Use a Sheet Metal NibblerLearn What Can be Cut with a Sheet Metal Nibbler

Hi and on behalf of Expert Village I'm Terry
and today I'm going to show you how to use a set of metal nibblers in metal working.
Ok there's several, there's several types of materials that you can cut with nibblers.
You can cut tin, you can cut colrole steel, you can cut copper, brass, and aluminum. It's
just the nibblers go anywhere from a gage usually from twenty-four gage down to about
fourteen gage. These particular ones will go, will go up to a sixteen gage, you don't
want to do anything thicker then that. Now you always want to if your doing stainless
you want to go down about three, you want to go up about three gages so let's say these
are set for sixteen then you don't want to do anything heavier in stainless then probably
a twenty gage because it's a more harder metal.

Copper's fine, brass is fine so it's right
along there with tin so again sixteen to twenty four gage is about your limit on these. And
on the gauging of your material it's the smaller the number the thicker the metal so it's like
on wiring and other US standards. So if your talking like twenty two actually twenty-four
gage is close to a pop can. Fourteen gage is close to a, it's close to a dime in thickness.
So this right here we have, it's twenty gage and I have some sixteen gage, it's pretty
heavy.

I really don't like to use, I really don't like to cut my sixteen gage with these
because I just like, I don't like changing the cutter on them so often. It will wear
them down a lot faster of course then it will an eighteen or a twenty gage..