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Cool Tool , sheet metal nibbler

 
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Hi All; I Bought this tool for my wife.   She didn't care for it at all ,  but I sure did!
Runs from any drill, rotates to any position while cutting. Has two cutting heads on it and a spare head with a spare cutting bit as well.
It does need a 1/2" hole to get started but after that it just chomps away , with no distortion! No curl of sharp metal waiting to poke you.
Easy to use, easy to keep control of with the second handle. I recently used it to cut the bottom out from the 55 gal barrel on my new RMH shop heater. It also was invaluable trimming the hvac register, that  I used for my exhaust outlet. Will go in places you could not get tin snips to.  Cutting a rust free body panel from a junk car just got very easy.  Many more uses I haven't thought of yet.
Cool tool to have in your tool box!
Cost is less than $20!
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Does it cut out little crescent moon shaped bits of metal?  If so I used one of them once and loved the cutting.  I didn't like the crescent shaped piece of metal that ended up in my shoe

But for $20 I might just pick one up.  Thanks!
 
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Yup Mike;    That's this tool.  If you can avoid the little crescent moons... it really works well.

I bought it two Christmases ago.  Wife wouldn't use it. It sat till this summer when I needed to cut the top on my barrel .  I think it earned a better spot in my tool lineup.
 
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I have one.  It needs to be sold with one of those rolling magnetic sweepers.  I find that works wonders for picking up those crescents.
 
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