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Klif01 · Mar 18, 2003

Anyone in orem able to trim or show me how to trim like 2 inches of my left fender. My tires rub in only one spot and I want to cut it off. Thanks anyone.

demon jeep · Mar 18, 2003

get a tourch and have fun sawzall takes to long.. Were are you looking to cut is it were the flare ends and it keeps gettting bent out.

pokeyYJ · Mar 18, 2003

Originally posted by demon jeep
Were are you looking to cut is it were the flare ends and it keeps gettting bent out.

Dude, can you say Toyota?
Cause thats what he drives!

crimsonride · Mar 18, 2003

I guess you don't care for looks cause neither of those cuts very clean.
I suggest you use a airhammer with a pigs foot. Cuts clean and is easy to turn. If you do, just make sure you tape the fender and trace where you want to cut with a pen or something.

demon jeep · Mar 18, 2003

Originally posted by pokeyYJ

Dude, can you say Toyota?
Cause thats what he drives!

Sorry dint know that until know.

Caleb · Mar 18, 2003

Originally posted by crimsonride
I guess you don't care for looks cause neither of those cuts very clean.
I suggest you use a airhammer with a pigs foot. Cuts clean and is easy to turn. If you do, just make sure you tape the fender and trace where you want to cut with a pen or something.

with the right blade a sawzall cuts pretty damn clean...all my cuts are with a sawzall...whats a pig foot???

Shawn · Mar 18, 2003

I'd take a sawzaw over a torch any day. The sawzaw cuts much cleaner (if you take your time).

Caleb · Mar 18, 2003

Originally posted by Shawn
The sawzaw cuts much cleaner (if you take your time).

exactly...

Klif01 · Mar 18, 2003

Alright, well I have never cut anything, cept like a tail pipe off with a hand grinder. I just thought someone is good with a sawzall that lives in the orem area, I would kindof like to do this like tommorow or thursday, cause Im heading down to moab on thursday evening. Any takers? I can bring you a drink or somthing......non-alcoholic though cause Im not old enough to buy.

crimsonride · Mar 19, 2003

Originally posted by supergper

with the right blade a sawzall cuts pretty damn clean...all my cuts are with a sawzall...whats a pig foot???

Yeah, you can get a clean cut with a sawzall, I've just had better luck with the pigs foot. It's a funny lookin tool that goes in the air hammer, sorta like a fork. Three prongs, the two outer ones are bent one way and the inner one is bent the other. It sorta works like a shear to cut the metal. A lot of auto body guys use them. They're very easy to use, you just can't go happy with the air or you'll get speed hole.

spencurai · Mar 19, 2003

Originally posted by crimsonride

Yeah, you can get a clean cut with a sawzall, I've just had better luck with the pigs foot. It's a funny lookin tool that goes in the air hammer, sorta like a fork. Three prongs, the two outer ones are bent one way and the inner one is bent the other. It sorta works like a shear to cut the metal. A lot of auto body guys use them. They're very easy to use, you just can't go happy with the air or you'll get speed hole.

AKA "nibbler"

they work great but are sometimes hard to utilize on a realy curvacious body. They are designed for flat metal so watch it when you come to a pinch weld....I broke mine that way

mbryson · Mar 19, 2003

I like an angle grinder with a cut off wheel the best......very clean cuts and there's no 'reciprocating' action to tear your cute little fenders apart......

Brad Yates · Mar 19, 2003

everything i've cut, i've cut with a dremel!

Klif01, if you bring me a Dremel multicutoff wheel pack from Lowe's i can do it for you thursday at 2:30pm. i'm on BYU campus so not too far away.

rustybronco · Mar 19, 2003

Originally posted by spencurai

AKA "nibbler"

they work great but are sometimes hard to utilize on a realy curvacious body. They are designed for flat metal so watch it when you come to a pinch weld....I broke mine that way

That's a different tool yet. I'd go sawzall. Cover the fender with masking tape, draw your lines, cut slow with lots of blade speed. Makes round cuts easier. Hand file edge clean. Wheel on.

troutbum · Mar 19, 2003

I like a jig saw, you get cleaner cuts than a sawzall and more blade control,

tweakeyjeep · Mar 19, 2003

Yeah well I like a chain saw the best. Works wonders in Grand Theft Auto Vice City!!

brian · Mar 19, 2003

Originally posted by mbryson
I like an angle grinder with a cut off wheel the best......very clean cuts and there's no 'reciprocating' action to tear your cute little fenders apart......

I'm with you........as far as the air chisel , pigs foot , nibbler goes we had those on our engines(I was a firefighter) in so cal.....they will tear into some s!@% in a hurry.....fun but ugly cutting

crimsonride · Mar 20, 2003

Originally posted by brian
I'm with you........as far as the air chisel , pigs foot , nibbler goes we had those on our engines(I was a firefighter) in so cal.....they will tear into some s!@% in a hurry.....fun but ugly cutting

I always thought a nibbler was a electric or neumatic tool that worked like a pigs foot only in a shearing action like scissors. The pigs foot just slices away when it's hammered. Kind of like chisseling. Either way, it all comes down to what you like best. I can't work a cuttoff wheel worth a damn, always kinking and running away on me and when I used a sawzall it was grabbing and trying to eat my fingers. Nibbler, pigs foot, whatever it is. It worked great when I didn't go turbo on the air.

Brett · Mar 20, 2003

Give me a Dremel, a Sawzall, a cutoff wheel and some Jaeger and we are good to go.

brian · Mar 20, 2003

Originally posted by crimsonride

I always thought a nibbler was a electric or neumatic tool that worked like a pigs foot only in a shearing action like scissors. The pigs foot just slices away when it's hammered. Kind of like chisseling. Either way, it all comes down to what you like best. I can't work a cuttoff wheel worth a damn, always kinking and running away on me and when I used a sawzall it was grabbing and trying to eat my fingers. Nibbler, pigs foot, whatever it is. It worked great when I didn't go turbo on the air.

try drawing patterns with a sharpie grind shallow grooves on your lines then the grinder will stay in the grooves..........you cant bury it to the $@C on the first stroke

you also need a good fast (12000 rpm or better) grinder. I use a milwaulke...love it!!

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