This will slow your cutting speed.
Cleanest way to cut aluminum siding with a saw.
Set your circular saw to the depth of the 1 board plus another 1 8.
Install a plywood blade backward onto a circular saw.
Circular saws generally are suitable for cutting aluminum between 0 5 and 6 in.
Cut across the contours of the aluminum siding with a radial arm saw.
Reduce the diameter of the cutting blade for better results.
Using the board as the guide for your circular saw cut down the length of the aluminum siding.
Band saws generally make sense for aluminum stock of 6 in.
Making accurate cuts on aluminum rods tubes and angles is easy with a miter saw and a blade designed to cut nonferrous metal check the label.
These include miter saws chop saws table saws and handheld circular saws.
Once you get use to it you can set the cut off blade for a deeper cut and free hand it using the board as a guide.
Diameter for high volume jobs up to 5 000 parts per shift and for the best possible finish on the cut piece.
My question is which tool will allow me to make the cleanest straightest cut.
The siding is aluminum and although most all of the cut edges will be covered with j channel flashing a small portion will be exposed.
Use the panel to reduce the risk of snags while cutting.
For example if you use a 10 inch 25 cm saw you can reduce the blade to 7 25 inches 18 4 cm.
I have tried tin snips skil saw and a sawzall not exactly the cleanest.
While cutting at the width of the aluminum siding make use of straight tin snips.
Step 2 cut the width.
Flip the sheet over and repeat.
The cutting speed used for wood is generally going to be too fast to safely cut aluminum.
Remember goggles and hearing protection.
If the motor housing on your saw is open and could collect metal chips tape a piece of cloth over the openings to protect the motor windings and bearings while you cut the aluminum.
After a few wiggles the sheet will fracture along the cut line leaving a clean break as shown in the above photos.
With care and patience full size sheets of aluminium can be cut using this method.
Place the fracture line over the edge of a table and bend the overhang slightly downwards.
Diameter and larger and for shops that are interested in high speed cutting of aluminum but.
