Category: Shears
What to Do When Your Shear Blades Get Dull
The Consumable Contingency of Shear Blades It doesn’t take a new metal fabrication shop owner very long to figure out that once all the machinery is purchased, his or her equipment investment is far from ended. Grease, filters, hydraulic oil, lasing gases—the list of consumables needing continual restocking goes on and on. Buying replacement tooling, […]
Mechanical vs Hydraulic — What’s the Best for Shearing Metal?
Which Shear Is the Best? You are considering purchasing a new plate cutting shear for your metal fabrication shop and wonder which shear is the best—mechanical vs hydraulic shear? The answer is a confusing but simple “Yes.” Asking which shear is better is like asking whether a mechanic or a doctor is better. You might […]
What Are the Differences Between RMT Shears?
Like most lines of machines produced by Revolution Machine Tools, RMT’s shears (metal-cutting) are available in not just different capacities of length and thickness, but are also grouped in different machine series, depending on the specific needs of different fabricators.