How to bend
And Cut Aluminum Flashing
Fast, Precision Aluminum Sheet Cuts with a Brake and Olfa knife
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this week we feature a tip for you
scratch builders we have another nice
way to cut long pieces of aluminum using
the Alpha knife technique we have shown
this before but this time our guest is
Chris bolting house who has come up with
a unique way of reducing the number of
strokes you need to make with the knife
to make these very accurate long cuts he
uses his bending break along with the
Olfa knife let's take a look at how he
does this we're going to show how quick
and easy it is to use the Alpha cutter
thing and the bending break to make
strips for standard ales or anything
else to have to cut long straight lines
so I've measured this off I've got it
clamps in the bending break and you can
see I pulled out the suit bolts of the
sheets top all through you just take the
Olfa draw it down your nice straight
edge of your clamping leave there's one
back to the other end
ah don't do that there's a bad spot that
I'll have to not use you go a little
slower it tends to follow the first path
really well now when you approach where
it went off the track yep be careful a
little bit again so that's three I'll do
four for good measure this is 25.4 SIF
you've got thicker material you'll have
to do additional passes and the more
time you take here to make sure that
they stay in the same path the less
deeper and you'll have to do and you're
done now we can take little let's bring
the dustpan get some of the little
squiggles off because I discovered that
you let those get under your brake under
your clamping leaf it will make dents in
future parts this is good then you just
this right here crack push it back down
with your hand sometimes it takes a
second done
and thank you Chris for sharing that
with us remember the beauty of this
technique is that it only took four
strokes of the Olfa knife rather than
the usual 15 to 20 so that can really
speed up your process of creating cuts
in your aluminum if you are interested
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