Cutting relatively thick metal. Ideas needed.

[chopnhack]

Sounds good! Would get a sweet comment, but there was no picture to justify ;-) In due time I am sure.

GL with the the reno! Can't wait to get some time and money together, preferably at the same time, to continue mine.

[jdon]

So... how did you end up cutting the steel, after all the recs?

[dbhost]

Sorry for the redirect to a different forum, but I go into painful detail on it on www.f150online.com forum... My thread is HERE.

The cutting is done / being done mostly by HF cutoff wheel in my cheap B&D angle grinder.

All I have left to do is slot and drill the bumper for the roller fairlead, and install everything / wire it up and I am done. But that is going to have to wait. My electrcian will be at the house next Friday and I still have sheetrock on my garage wall!

But THIS progress pic should tide you over for a little bit...

[jseklund]

Looks good - If I wasn't late to the game, I would have suggested the cutoff wheel / angle grinder too. I used to use recip/jig saws for cutting through metal...but I picked up an angle grinder with a bunch of tools that a retiring contractor was selling a couple years ago. Not realizing how useful the angle grinder was, it sat unused for quite a while.

I finally used it for a situation that needed some metal cutting and haven't looked back ever since - it now gets used on all sorts of metal cuts.


Good job.