28 Sep
2006
28 Sep
'06
5:55 a.m.
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 11:19 pm, Ethan Dicks wrote:
A compressed air supply? Sounds good to me, though I haven't figured out yet
where I'm gonna put one in this second floor apartment. :-)
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On 9/28/06, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
wrote:
There was just a flurry of activity about those with a fellow in Austria
wanting to get his hands on some of them, and that eventually being worked
out.
I'm not remembering why they broke, but I know I broke several of those when
I first got one -- the spec in the catalog at that time said they were good
on up to 16 ga. steel, and the box I was trying to nibble (also from RS :-)
said it was 16 ga. steel, which I was happy to point out to them. The one I
ended up with since was able to cut out the rectangular hole I wanted and has
since done nicely with aluminum miniboxes and such, though I haven't
stressed it much since that original stress test.
Cheap manual nibblers (about $10) work, but are a
little hard on the hand
after awhile, particularly if you've got heavy gauge sheet metal.
And I've broken cheap RS nibblers on thick aluminum... they are OK for
plastic and really thin sheet. If you've
got a compressed air supply, you can pick up a pneumatic
nibbler for about $30 from your local cheap Chinese tool store (e.g.
Harbor Freight). These can make just about any shape hole in sheet metal
up to 14 gauge very quickly and easily.
Ooh... I gots to get me one of those...