There’s no reason to use a hacksaw in a modern farm shop. Cutting metal on a farm often used to involve either an oxy-acetylene torch, a hacksaw or tin snips. If a shop was “high-tech,” it might have ...

My favorite tools for accurately cutting sheetmetal are aircraft shears. These are available in most hardware or big-box stores, and are quite affordable. They come in left (red), right (green), and ...

[Kevin Cheung] likes to upcycle old soda cans into — well — things. The metal is thin enough to cut by hand, but he’d started using a manual die-cutting machine, and it worked well. The problem? The ...

Watch a powerful excavator equipped with a heavy-duty hydraulic shear working through piles of scrap metal at a recycling ...

Sandvik Coromant T-Max P Insert has been cutting steel and cast iron in CNC lathes and mills for decades, and it remains a staple in many US job shops today. Anyone holding Sandvik stock (STO: SAND, ...

The first step in fabricating a sheet metal component is cutting to size. Shearing machines and shearing machinery perform this function. Shearing machines are multipurpose devices used in the cutting ...