Either way there are a few starting points that might work for you.
Aircraft aluminum cutting handheld router thin sheet.
The textbook cutting speed for aluminum using a carbide tool is about 1 500 surface feet per minute at the high end and 1 000 at the lower end.
Our air nibbler nibbles steel or aluminum sheet without distorting or twisting the sheet.
You may think of your router as a tool only for woodworking but chris marshall explains how you can use it for metal pieces as well.
Used a basic 1 4 shaft wood edging router bit to quickly trim the edge of 1 4 thick 6160 aluminum sheet.
He shows the jig he use.
Us industrial tool manufactures panel cutting saws and panel cutting saw kits for cutting a wide range of materials.
Router cutters are available in a range of shank sizes through.
But you can throw a tarp over the router table and use ear muffs and save a lot of time.
A homemade hobby router will be very different from a large router that s professionally built for aerospace composites.
This tool is small enough to start in the middle of a sheet and only need a 1 hole to start.