How To Cut Metal Framing Studs
How to Cut Metal Framing Most home centers sell circular and chop saw blades designed for cutting studs but or experts prefes a quieter and less messy approach.
How to cut metal framing studs. Cut a stud to fit with aviation snips or a chop saw or circular saw equipped with a metal-cutting blade. The metal chop saw or cutoff saw is essential if youre going to frame with metal studs. In order to make the cuts we recommend you to use straight-cut thin snips.
Cuts both sides with snips and score a line on the back. Step 3 - Cut Your Stud. For large jobs you can also cut the studs with a circular saw or chop saw using a special metal-cutting carborundum bladebe aware that this produces smoke noise and an impressive shower of sparks.
BBQ Coach demonstrates how to safely and easily cut steel tracks and studs with a 14 chop saw. After bending the stud back and forth a few times youll end up with a burr-free cut. Then bend one flange up-clear of the snips jaws-and cut across the studs web.
If you need to get an entire building frame up then you need to do more and do it much quicker. Make sure you leave it loose until the drywall goes up. To cut multiple pieces at once use a miter saw with a metal cutting blade.
How to Cut Metal Studs. Measure the height between the tracks at one end of the wall. So just like wood framing youll be cutting studs to length and you wont want to be using your good sliding compound miter saw to do it.
The Easy Way To Cut Metal Studs Just by using circular sawThanks for watchingLike Comment and ShareSubscribe if you like I created this video with th. Cutting metal studs with power tools requires hearing protection. Actually if you want to create curves or archways with drywall boards you have to bend the metal tracks and then fit the steel studs in their channels.