Nibbler

Anyone ever used these nibblers you can put on your drill??? There are all kinds online which I never knew before coming across this one......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LLBTyWFdkk

I've seen a couple videos that make it seem like it's more of a violent process than this video shows but it may have been a cheaper nibbler or a material thing.......

Nice... old school hand nibblers can wear out your hand muscles pretty quickly.

It looks like the power nibbler likes to be bench mounted...

JR

The powered ones are quite common in car body shops...

My handnibbler came from Tandy, Radio Shack's european operation that went belly up a decade ago. Nice tool, but like John said, not for long operation.

Oh, fooey. This CaNibble is just a copy-cat Bad Dog Biter. I have a Biter. It works far better than you would expect. Nearly reactionless. You can use it freehand. It really eats metal. The cut is not as burred as shears or saw.

Ah- the CaNibble is half the price of the Biter. But Amazon lists copy-copy-cats for less than half a CaNibble. Makita sells the head on a motor which is probably the way to go for serious work.

Harbor freight and Eastwood have a power nibbler for about $50. Is there an advantage to the drill attachment over a dedicated tool?

scott2000 said:

do you have a link? I can only see air/hand powered so far...

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https://www.harborfreight.com/14-gauge-4-amp-heavy-duty-metal-shears-62213.html

Gene

PS:

A dyslexic walked into a bra....

https://www.eastwood.com/electric-metal-cutting-shears.html

scott2000 said:

Anyone ever used these nibblers you can put on your drill??? There are all kinds online which I never knew before coming across this one......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LLBTyWFdkk

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Looks pretty good, I need something like that.

thanks for the link

Square nibbler, round nibbler, and shears are very different tools.

We all know the hand (square) nibbler does not do curves well.

The round-tooth nibblers take small round bites, are slow so "need" a motor, but will do curves, and even tight curves (the Bad Dog will, I'm not sure the CaNibble is set up for that).

The auto-body (and roofing) shears really want to go straight. An artist can get some curve with repetitive cuts. They can do a LOT of cut quickly. They make ONE wicked curl of scrap; nibblers make MANY TINY SHARP bites which fall in your shoes. (So there is a mild advantage to cutting steel, you can get 98% of the punchings with a strong magnet. Aluminum bites are forever.)

Gene Pink said:

A dyslexic walked into a bra....

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