Snips

The shearing is a tool for shearing of sheet metal and sheet metal profiles, thin sheets of steel and soft metals.

The cutting, also called shearing, is chipless separation process. Two cutting move against each other and a notch the material. The advantage over the saws is that in this case no metal chips are produced.

Sheets up to 1.0 mm thick can be cut with hand shears. Different applications have different versions are needed. There Shears as a hand tool and as a electric metal shears - for example, as a curve scissors. Shears are available in different versions, such as hand metal shears for cutting thin and not too hard plates, electric metal shears that require less effort, lever shears or lever shears for thicker plates, the snips for long and straight cuts and snips, both for continuous is applicable sections as well as for large and small contours or radii. In some embodiments, the cutting edges are serrated so as to avoid that the shear slip.

It is also divided into right and left cutting sheet metal shears. Rights scissors are not as polished and designed to be so right radii ( ie an arc from left to right ) simply cuts. Radii cuts from right to left is best done with a left hand scissors.

Compressed air metal shears

Shears 1930

Hand lever shears

Lever TranslatedAddress hand shears