Nibbler

[scott2000]

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.......

 

[JohnRoberts]

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

 

[cyrano]

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.

 

[PRR]

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.

 

[Gold]

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

 

[Gene Pink]

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

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

Gene

PS:

A dyslexic walked into a bra....

 

[Gold]

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

 

[Whoops]

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

Looks pretty good, I need something like that.

thanks for the link

 

[PRR]

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.)

 

[Kingston]

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