Plug in the saw and squeeze the trigger button.
I got cut on hand from gutter.
Buy a box miter and cut the back and bottom off of a short piece of ogee gutter what ever size you re going to be working with.
Use a carpenter s square to get around to the bottom.
If the section of the gutter you are discarding is on your left use the right hand tin snips and vice versa if the discarded section is on right.
Laying your gutter on the workbench measure off the amount of gutter you want to cut and mark it with a pencil.
If i put my hand on it and hold it no shock but if i just touch it i get shocked only once but it happens every time i barely.
It is an old house with a tin roof on top of a shingled roof.
How to cut a custom gutter miter.
Cut a two inch long notch in the front lip of the gutter with tin snips to join a rain gutter section with an inside or outside corner piece.
I cut the edge of the metal roof to expose the gutter.
Use the old adage measure twice and cut once then turn the gutter upside down on the table and mark it all the way around.
Cut a four inch long notch to overlap and splice together gutter sections.
I had originally planned to use a jigsaw but there wasn t room to maneuver it so i used a hand.
Out and started to clean the gutters out and got a pretty good electric shock.
I ve got templates that i made years ago that i lay on the face of the ogee to mark the gutter with.
Let go of the trigger when through and then pull the saw back up to its starting position.
If you have difficulty cutting with the tin snips make another cut 1 to 2 inches away from the cut line with the alternate hand snip.
Extend the cut mark around the aluminum gutter by aligning the blade of the combination square with the length mark you placed on the bottom surface of the aluminum gutter and running the carpenter s pencil along the edge of the combination square blade.
Clean and mark the gutter to make your cut for the outlet.
Cut all the way through at a consistent speed.
The cut edges are likely to be jagged enough to open up an unappealing gash in your hand so you may want to don a pair of gloves.
Then with the combination square transfer the line down each side of the aluminum gutter.
The gutter was full of broken pieces of shingles so i got the shop vac.
