Milwaukee M18 Nibbler

[Craig-SM]

I'd seen the Makita cordless nibbler in action a while ago and thought that would be handy with a capacity of 1.6mm in sheet mild steel. Just arrived in my emails is Milwaukees answer with 3.4mm in sheet mild steel, way more than I'd ever need but I know some of you would get use out of that capacity and looking at the video it's no slouch either and it might seem trivial but a collection bag for the chips saves a lot of clean up. It also has the autostart that starts slow and speeds up to the material it is cutting through which I find works really well on the jigsaw.

 

[droopsnoot]

Looks nice, though I don't have a need for something that will cut such a thickness. I like the look of the collection bag, I'll have to see if I can rig up something similar on my new Lidl / Parkside one.

Interesting about it starting slowly and speeding up - the instructions to one of my drill-mounted nibblers said that you should do the opposite - get it running at full speed before applying it to the edge of the material.