SHEARING

All-Metal Fabricators, Inc. has your solution for all of your metal fabricating needs. Shearing is a metal fabricating process used to cut straight lines on flat metal stock. During the shearing process, an upper blade and a lower blade are forced past each other with the space between them determined by a required offset. Normally, one of the blades remains stationary.

Typically, the upper shear blade is mounted at an angle to the lower blade that is normally mounted horizontally. The shearing process performs only fundamental straight-line cutting but any geometrical shape with a straight line cut can usually be produced on a shear. Metal shearing can be performed on sheet, strip, bar, plate, and even angle stock.

Materials that are commonly sheared include:

• Aluminum
• Brass
• Bronze
• Mild steel
• Stainless steel