Category: Shears

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 […]

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.

Early History of Cutting Metal Prehistoric humans learned how to make and use tools, first of stone, wood and bone, but later of metal. Gold, copper and silver were some of the original metals worked with, as they are considered “Native Metals,” or metals that don’t have to be first extracted from other metals or […]