Thankfully, Ron Baker, House Digest's home improvement expert, revealed that a center punch is the tool you'll always want to have on hand when ... standing seam sheet metal to 2½-inch square ...

With the fate of repetitive motion injury looming due to the need to drill 1,200 holes, [bitluni] took matters into his own hands and built this nifty DIY hole punch for light-gauge sheet metal.

An old, rusty hand metal punch and its battered case are given new life through a detailed restoration process. The punch, ...