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Works well am very pleased. A little hard to cut corragated tin need to go up and down with ridges.
I wish I could meet the guy who invented this amazingly simple piece of ingenuity. After years of hard use these things are still going strong.
Conventional nippers and punches were all inferior to my midwest snips Midwest Left Cuts Snip but when we found this marvelous invention maybe four or five years ago I finally had a competent powered snips. I've been doing metal roofing for around twelve years and this is by far the best powered metal cutting tool I've met.
It fits the 18v DeWalt screw guns like it's been specially designed for it, but is also very versatile allowing it to fit different sizes and shapes of drills. This tool works better than advertised.
It can indeed cut through several layers of standard metal roofing (28-29 gauge) thus saving extra time if you are cutting several pieces at the same angle or length. The jaws are a tad looser than they used to be and could use a little adjustment, but are still functioning well.
Five and a half stars.
I was cutting metal barn siding/roofing with this tool and what a blister saver. cuts like butter. I would highly recommend it. Used it on a cordless craftsman and also a dewalt corded drill
This is an awesome tool for me. I'm an HVAC tech that has to cut metal once in a while but not very often. I loathe using hand shears and that makes this a great tool for me. It takes up little room in the van, connects to the drill easily (I've tried it on 2 types, both work great), and it does its job very well.
The spindle has three flats which makes it easy to tighten the battery powered drill's keyless chuck around. The 3/4 inch high ribs were not a problem for the Turbo Shear attachment to cut through.
The roof had several complex valleys where the metal needed to be cut at various angles. The steel roofing panels were easily cut with the Malco TSHD attachment.
I recently re-roofed my house in red metal. The Turbo Shear attachment went through the 29 gauge steel like a knife through butter.
I alternated using it between a Ryobi 18 volt battery powered electric drill and a Black & Decker 14.4 volt battery powered Fire Storm drill. Both worked equally well.
One thing I noticed was that the bottom shear jaw would scratch the metal on it's side; however, by placing the cutter on the waste side, this was eliminated. If you are installing metal roofing, this is a low-cost alternative to both a nibbler and power shear, plus with the freedom of going cordless.Buy it.
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