How To Sharpen Sheet Metal Shear Blades

Identify the original bevel in your blades.

How to sharpen sheet metal shear blades.

Grinding can sharpen any shear blade up to 14 within the same precision tolerances as new knives to maintain high productivity and quality cuts. They must be sharpened periodically to ensure that they function properly. Sharp pruning shears make life easier than a pair of dull rusty shears. Many methods may be used to sharpen sheet metal cutting shears some of which require specialized tools.

You can easily sharpen your pruning shears at home with a medium or coarse diamond hand file. After you clean the shears and remove rust with a piece of steel wool use the file to sharpen the cutting blade of the shears. Blades are available as single edge two edge four edge and bowtie configurations to suit your individual cutting application. Larger magnet small magnet 230mm angle grinder 9 standard metal cutting disc a vice to attach your angle grinder how to shear a shee.

The tolerances for sharpening the width and thickness will be parallel to within 002 from end to end. And whenever we get the shear blades. Our shear blades are manufactured from the highest quality alloys to close tolerance quality control standards. We strive to meet all of our customer s needs with high quality products and fast turnaround times.

He then had to shim them when they were re mounted to get the proper clearance. Results 1 to 13 of 13 thread. Sharpen the blades with a mill file. Sharpening shear blades.

But a guy near me who does sheet metal work had a local shop grind his and they ground them on the faces instead of the edges. All shear blades are precisely heat treated to assure consistently uniform hardness throughout. It is a good idea to have the blades in a vise grip during this step. We carry a large variety and inventory of metal shear blades and also offer custom made blades for your machine.

We supply shear blades for the following machines. However after extended use these blades can dull and become ineffective. The shears are sold equipped with razor sharp blades from the factory.