Making Aluminum offcuts - what tool?

[Robin Hewitt]

I use an old bandsaw with a skip tooth blade for aluminium, 40mm is a bit slow, half inch is easy, 1/4" it doesn't really notice it's cutting.

[graffian]

I use an old bandsaw with a skip tooth blade for aluminium, 40mm is a bit slow, half inch is easy, 1/4" it doesn't really notice it's cutting.

I bought an old bandsaw, it came with a stack of wood blades and they cut through <5 mm ali completely effortlessly. Chopping inch stuff the metal gets hot but it does the job. Think proper blades are in order.

I used to cut out a lot of stuff from upto inch ali with a jigsaw, use an eclipse all hard
14tpi blade and they are quite good. I only have a cheap old jigsaw and it works pretty good.

I cut a lot of sheet out with a circular saw, no idea about blades I just go in the back of my brothers van and use his circular saw. It makes a terrible racket but cut's really well.

[rnr107]

An horizontal mill with a slitting blade ? I use to do that when I had my Tom Senior M1...