I know it is a steel material, gauge steel?
2007-12-10 01:49:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Car Makes ➔ Chevrolet
The '70s Chevys were made with what is known as 'Japanese steel'. Very thin and rust prone. Here in 2007, you may be able to use your grade school paper scissors on it.
2007-12-10 01:53:11 · answer #1 · answered by credo quia est absurdum 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Plasma cutters are not the way to go if you are trying to cut a clean hole or a straight line use a reciprocating saw with a metal blade or a hole saw with a bi-metal blade ,and in 1971 they used HALS metal High Alloy Low Steel but no matter how you look at it it is all sheet metal and any of these methods will work.
2007-12-13 20:28:51 · answer #2 · answered by Big Daddy D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the gauge would be somewhere around14-20, which is the decimal of .05-.02,
pretty thin, a little thicker then a coffee can.you can cut it with anything you want, depending on how much time and money you want to spend, a jig saw w/a metal blade, a sawz-all, tin snips, hatchet, die grinder, 4" cutting wheel, oxy torch, etc.
yeh, a plasma cutter is the way to go, if you have access to 220v electric, compressed oxygen or air , and a spare $$500.00 for the machine.
2007-12-10 10:15:48 · answer #3 · answered by bg.hard 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'd say the best thing to use is a plasma cutter. clean edges with almost no smoke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_cutting
It's what the pro's use.
2007-12-10 09:53:19 · answer #4 · answered by smckech1972 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋