Repeat this process for a straight-cut line, except you will use yellow tin snips. How to cut sheet metal with an angle grinder Before starting, make sure the angle grinder is unplugged.

Don't wreck a good pair of scissors trying to cut metal. You need a good pair of tin snips. Tin snips look and work a lot like scissors. For cutting circles and curves, use hawks-bill tin snips ...

“For $125 you can bolt it to a work bench, cut flat sheet steel up to 3/16-inch, and pretty much retire your tin snips,” says Phil Heck, owner of Woodward Fab, which offers an amazing variety ...