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Brent Philion
 
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Default Cutting copper

Fred R wrote:
Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:

Um... there's a "trade secret" to cutting copper sheet. My dad taught
me this when I was a kid, then I heard it repeated once on the 1980's
show "Half a Handy Hour".

This is THE secret to working with sheet copper:

DON'T bleed to death.

GGG

LLoyd



Snort! How true with sheet *anything*, even paper to be honest. My
family can always tell what kind of work I've been doing by my injuries:
burns=soldering, barked knuckles=mechanical, etc. but the really serious
bloodshed always means sheet metal.

Wonder if machining is my favorite because I don't damage myself, much?


Until a machine chews a finger