Putting Sheet Metal Through Wood Barrell Sander

How to easily attach sheet metal to wood.

Putting sheet metal through wood barrell sander.

By selling directly to end users we provide the best quality products at the best price to professionals and hobbyists. For clean precise holes in thin sheet metal make a wood sandwich. A sturdy grate can limit the danger a barrel presents. Don t cut corners when you make your grate.

You primarily use drum sanders to finish wood surfaces but brush sanders can handle both wood and metal stock. The grate can catch flying debris that pose a fire hazard. Some supermax drum sanders can use either brushes or sanding drums for additional flexibility. The wooden bread layers of the sandwich keep the sheet metal flat and prevent the drill bit from wandering as it bores through the sheet metal.

A burn barrel can be a useful but dangerous tool. Whether you re working on metal furniture or fixtures the standard air shear can cut through cold rolled steels as thick as 20 gauge as well as 16 gauge sheet metal and 14 gauge aluminum. Is a national retail and internet company providing a wide variety of high quality woodworking and metalworking machinery power tools hand tools and accessories. To maintain the structural integrity of the barrel for years to come we would recommend adding 3 or 4 screws through each of the metal hoops bands around the barrel and into the wood of the staves.

An ideal tool for metal workshops of all capacities an air shear requires 8 to 16 cfm at 90 psi. Drum sander cylinders are solid metal tubes wrapped with sandpaper and supermax brush sander cylinders have stiff wire or nylon bristles. Use self tapping sheet metal screws to drill through the hoops and into the barrel. The reverse rivet trick no rivet gun necessary.

It doesn t matter if you are a home shop or a large cabinet shop we have the right sander that will leave a great finish. Simply sandwich the sheet metal between two pieces of wood and clamp everything down on a table or workbench. I would never put a screw or nail through the drainage plane of a sill wrap like that not only does it look terrible in the most visible part of a window s exterior trim from the inside the silicone seal will eventually fail. Without the proper fireproofing though your grate can become a fire hazard itself.

Elite metal tools offers drum sanders that are perfect for at home or any shop.