Maybe everyone does it this way, but I never see it:
Sheet metal snips (or whatever you call them in your neck of the woods) - I have a typical offset pair with the sharply angeld head which is supposed to make it easier to do a long cut. Every picture I see shows them being used as in my first attached pic; head down handles up. This is the way I have used them for years. The angled head is certainly better then the straight ones.
In a rare moment of enlightenment I turned them around; head up, handles down below the sheet (holding the rest in your had for a small piece, or have it hanging over the edge of a table for larger ones). See pic. no.2.
Oh what an improvement in ergonomics! No longer is my wrist painfully contorted (look at pic. no.1) and I can see the line of cut much better. No, it doesn't work for every cut but virtually all. Try it .
Such a simple thing and it took me 20 years to discover??
Sheet metal snips (or whatever you call them in your neck of the woods) - I have a typical offset pair with the sharply angeld head which is supposed to make it easier to do a long cut. Every picture I see shows them being used as in my first attached pic; head down handles up. This is the way I have used them for years. The angled head is certainly better then the straight ones.
In a rare moment of enlightenment I turned them around; head up, handles down below the sheet (holding the rest in your had for a small piece, or have it hanging over the edge of a table for larger ones). See pic. no.2.
Oh what an improvement in ergonomics! No longer is my wrist painfully contorted (look at pic. no.1) and I can see the line of cut much better. No, it doesn't work for every cut but virtually all. Try it .
Such a simple thing and it took me 20 years to discover??
