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How to Cut Corrugated Metal Roofing?
The best cut is using a metal cutting carbide blade. These blades
are a bit expensive ($50 type). Morse, DML, Tenryu are some prime manufacturers. It will be well worth while if you do other metal work. You can use the blade on a circular saw or worm drive that you own, but they do make dedicated saws that catch all the chips, etc. Works great cutting angle iron, plate, sheet metal, etc. In a regular saw you will get lots of chips, but they are not hot - wear goggles. Abrasive blades will work, but can give a burred, burned type edge. Plywood blade backwards is slow - plywood blade forward works better for me. ______________________________ Keep the whole world singing . . . . DanG (remove the sevens) "Jones" wrote in message news:2006090609455616807-at@yourhousenet... Eduardo blew some of the 2' x 12' galvanized, corrugated steel roofing material off of my barn, and I had to replace most of 2 sheets. I didn't have any power on Saturday to cut it off, so I just nailed it up and let it run long off the eave of the roof, but now I have to cut it off flush with the rest of the roof. Can anyone tell me what I should use to cut this stuff? My brother (a contractor) says I should just put a plywood blade into my circular saw backwards, wear safety goggles and earplugs, grit my teeth and let 'er rip ... but somehow that sounds a little scary to me on an 18' ladder. Any ideas? Thanks, Joe |
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