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Hi and on behalf of Expert Village I'm Terry and today I'm going to show you how to use
a set of metal nibblers in metal working. Ok there's several, there's several types
of materials that you can cut with nibblers. You can cut tin, you can cut colrole steel,
you can cut copper, brass, and aluminum. It's just the nibblers go anywhere from a gage
usually from twenty-four gage down to about fourteen gage. These particular ones will
go, will go up to a sixteen gage, you don't want to do anything thicker then that. Now
you always want to if your doing stainless you want to go down about three, you want
to go up about three gages so let's say these are set for sixteen then you don't want to
do anything heavier in stainless then probably a twenty gage because it's a more harder metal.
Copper's fine, brass is fine so it's right along there with tin so again sixteen to twenty
four gage is about your limit on these. And on the gauging of your material it's the smaller
the number the thicker the metal so it's like on wiring and other US standards. So if your
talking like twenty two actually twenty-four gage is close to a pop can. Fourteen gage
is close to a, it's close to a dime in thickness. So this right here we have, it's twenty gage
and I have some sixteen gage, it's pretty heavy. I really don't like to use, I really
don't like to cut my sixteen gage with these because I just like, I don't like changing
the cutter on them so often. It will wear them down a lot faster of course then it will
an eighteen or a twenty gage.