How Do You Break Aluminum For Window Trim?
Home repair doesn’t usually involve breaking things. In the case of fitting aluminum trim around a window, however, breaking describes the procedure you need to follow in order to make trim the length you want. Aluminum trim does not respond well to being sawed through, even with power tools. Its slightly brittle quality makes it much better suited to being scored and folded to size. Variations of this score/fold/snap technique are used on a variety of objects, among them graham crackers and postage stamps. Follow the steps below to apply this technique to aluminum window trim. Measure and pencil-mark the length of trim you need. A straight cut is easy. To handle diagonal cuts for edging corners, use a mitre box or protractor to get your angles precise (part of both the brittleness and the flexibility of aluminum trim means that minor corrections or trimmings are hard to do). Use your hacksaw to score the trim piece. This means making a surface cut–as deep as possible but not all the
