18 gauge steel sheets will max out Midwest (the style I prefer)
snips. You need to be a bull to cut very much 18.

Copper and aluminum are much easier, but I do not know a maximum.

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"Samantha BeanHead" wrote in
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Hi,

I am very much a beginner to working with metal, and I was just
wondering what kind of maximum thicknesses of sheet metal
(steels,
copper, aluminium) one would be expected to be able to cut using
so
called aviator snips. At the moment I am fairly limited in
budget and
equipment so I am wondering what is possible using hand tools.
Thanks.