today I'd like to talk about a few tools that I like to use to cut automotive
sheetmetal. The first one is this bit here and I suggest buying a very good
one off of a snap-on truck. This one happens to be a snap-on bit and I've had
it for quite a long time. You can get also get them for the Mac or Matco tool
truck. The way to use that is to chuck it into an air hammer like so and simply
put it up against the sheet metal like this and just hit the trigger. So that
bit is very good for ripping through panels, door bottoms, quarter panels, truck
bed sides for doing large cutting jobs. The disadvantage is that it is a little
bit loud. The next tool I want to show you for cutting automotive sheet metal is
called a nibbler and this guy you just you can plunge him through the center if
you drill a hole and start cutting or you can cut from the edge and I'll show
you how to use that so you can just start like this and
you can see you can do more intricate and more detailed cuts with a nibbler. It
is quieter and it is pretty fast but it does leave little sharp pieces of metal
laying around that you'll probably want to sweep up real quick or they get
stuck in your shoes as you can see the nibbler is great for cutting curves
or straight or circles you can drill a hole and plunge this in and cut. It's
great for intricate work. Another great cutting tool is a die grinder. The wheels
are very inexpensive and the die grinder lasts forever
so you know you can draw a line or you can just maybe if you have something
real quick that you need to cut off just do that bend it back and forth and takes
care of that real quick or you can draw a line follow that line with the
die grinder and use it like that and then just bend it back and forth and it cuts
it so it is a little bit slower but it really works well for very intricate
delicate cuts things that you can't get with anything else
finally it's always good to have a good quality set of tin snips around for
doing rust repair and cutting sheet metal these are from Matco and the
red-handled ones are for cutting to the left so if I wanted to cut a circle this
way it would be the red-handled ones if I wanted to cut straight it would be the
yellow and that just cuts straight across like that and if I wanted to cut
to the right we'd use the green handled ones so again good quality tin
snips are a must if you're going to be doing rust repair cutting patches or
anything that deals with cutting small intricate patterns in sheet metal. Again
these are some of my favorite tools for cutting automotive body sheet metal - the
air hammer, the nibbler, a die grinder and the tin snips this these tools are all I
ever use for cutting metal in auto body repair I hope you enjoyed this video on
the tools that I think are the most important for cutting and if you did and
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