Drill-powered nibbler - GIF

**Altair** · Nov 11, 2022, 11:27 AM

Drill-powered nibbler.

Previously:

Nibbler cutting diamond plate - GIF
Nibbler from angle grinder - video
Pneumatic nibbler cutting steel - GIF

**hemmjo** · Nov 12, 2022, 05:40 AM

Has anyone used one of those? Would that last very long cutting 28 ga steel pole barn siding and roofing? Would it handle cutting across the ridges in the sheets?

**Frank S** · Nov 12, 2022, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by hemmjo

Has anyone used one of those? Would that last very long cutting 28 ga steel pole barn siding and roofing? Would it handle cutting across the ridges in the sheets?

For the most part they like to be used on flat panels don't do especially well on corrugations. I've not used the drill powered model like the one shown, I have a pneumatic one. The one I have is more of a center shear than a nibbler. The long guide foot makes it difficult to work with corrugations. A true nibbler gnaws its way through materials by slicing off tiny fingernail trimmings with a small contact footprint, and a messy amount of ejected sharp swarth to clean up, this one may be like those for all I know

**clavius** · Nov 12, 2022, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by Frank S

For the most part they like to be used on flat panels don't do especially well on corrugations. I've not used the drill powered model like the one shown, I have a pneumatic one. The one I have is more of a center shear than a nibbler. The long guide foot makes it difficult to work with corrugations. A true nibbler gnaws its way through materials by slicing off tiny fingernail trimmings with a small contact footprint, and a messy amount of ejected sharp swarth to clean up, this one may be like those for all I know

I'm guessing that this one is a nibbler like you describe rather than the center shear type you have. I have a couple of those as well, great tools. I say that based on the fact that it looks to leave a very small kerf, the lack of the long curly waste piece that the shears leave, and the really sharp turns this one seems to make.

The cuttings from a nibbler are what one of my former coworkers called the "Razor sharp half-moons of doom" due to the fact that they seem to end up everywhere, stuck in the soles of your shoes, the sides of your socks, in your pockets, etc.