[TheForge] Manual shears and punches

[xlch58 at swbell.net]

Harbor Freight used to sell a chinese copy.  I bought one years ago and 
it does fine with quarter inch plate.  Where it really shines ( vs the 
other options I have) is for expanded metal.  Beats plasma, oxygen 
etc.   It cost me $89 on sale about ten years ago.

Charles


Ries Niemi wrote:

> But the coolest manual ironworkers still made are from Germany- Mubea 
> used to make them, but now they are sold in the USA by Glaser- Harry 
> Haake is the US rep, at 88-668-8427- I dont know if he stocks any of 
> these here or not, and they would not be cheap anyway, but they are 
> very cool-
>
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v132/rniemi/glasershear.jpg
>
> ries
>