I just obtained a Diacro #4 shear....24" wide cut.

It's capacity is 16 guage mild steel.

Will it cut 1/8" 3003 aluminum alright?

Or if not....both 5052 and 3003 .090 aluminum?

Rather ask first before testing.....thanks.

EBG wrote:

I just obtained a Diacro #4 shear....24" wide cut.

It's capacity is 16 guage mild steel.

Will it cut 1/8" 3003 aluminum alright?

Or if not....both 5052 and 3003 .090 aluminum?

Rather ask first before testing.....thanks.

Generally speaking, twice the steel thickness rating, when cutting
aluminum.

I gotta admit, guage numbers mean little to me. And there are so bloody
many "guage" standards as to make most of them, well, non-standard.
What's 16 guage in thousandths ? Around a sixteenth? If so you should be
good to an eighth in soft aluminum. IIRC the Diacro is reasonably well
built, and should be able to handle that.

Cheers
Trevor Jones

"EBG" wrote in message ...
I just obtained a Diacro #4 shear....24" wide cut.

It's capacity is 16 guage mild steel.

Will it cut 1/8" 3003 aluminum alright?

Or if not....both 5052 and 3003 .090 aluminum?

Rather ask first before testing.....thanks.

It should cut .090 but you may not be able to push hard enough to cut
..125". I don't think you can hurt it trying. Just don't try to cut
somethng very hard and fairly thin as you may spring the machine.
Leigh at MarMachine