Midwest Metal Snips
✂️🔧 Midwest Snips Decoded—Choose the Right Tool for Every Cut! 🎨🏠
Breaking Down the Colors:
🔵 Blue Handles: Right-hand long snips. Perfect for long, straight cuts and detailed work where precision matters. Ideal for extended reach.
🔴 Red Handles: Offset right-hand snips with a shorter blade. Great for tight curves and angled cuts while keeping your hand clear of the material for safety and control.
🟢 Green Handles: Left-hand snips. Designed for cutting in a counterclockwise direction or leftward curves. Your go-to for smooth left-side cuts.
Pro Tip:
Color coding helps match the tool to the type of cut, ensuring cleaner edges and easier handling. Whether it’s straight, angled, or curved cuts, there’s a Midwest snip for the job!
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..Are you playing a character like Nardwuar or something with construction workers? Why are you talking like that lol It's like you're trying to parody interviewers.
When he said red right hand i stop listening
We all know red=left
You got that right I use the left handed green snips because I am left handed
Red cuts right angle. Green cut left angle. I use wiss so yellow cuts straight. . No left or right ….
Awesome cheers
Or you can just flip them over
i'm a retired electrician…..this is all over my head…
Lets see on 24 gauge galvanized, not 30 gauge barn roof.
"Dimples" turn into "fishhooks"
Prime grip all day.
I got yellow
Put a 1 inch cut in it… put your foot on the tin and rip it. It rips straight. Your welcome.
I own 2 pair i bought and used commercially in 87. Still sharp and working.
Get me a jigsaw please 😊
Dude knows his stuff!
You have that backwards. Reds are left-handed snips. They make left-handed cuts. It has nothing to do with the hand you are holding them with. Greens make right-hand cuts. It's on the packaging. It does on Wiss. I'm a thirty year sheetmetal worker
What about nibblers?
Also lesser known publicly as aviation snips.
Red are for cutting a curve to the left, green are for a curve to the right & Google gave 2 answers for yellow:
1) L. & R. curves
2) straight line cuts.
The right hand cuts the circle to the left and also make a left hand that cuts the circle to the right and then a straight cut with a yellow handle
I worked for a standing seam roof manufacturer for 18 years and Mid
West Snips were our go to for training classes. They made stainless steel snips as well.
Red : Right
Yellow : Straight
Green : Left
This is actually not a good explanation. If the colour coding . They are coded according to there intended use . Yellow are for straight cuts . Green are for cuts to the right . Or clockwise while looking down . At the work . Red are for left cuts or counter clockwise . It’s about which side the cut piece top comes away from the snips . Making the curved cut . Easier . But good tip on the 1/2 cuts
Reds are left, greens are right
I used Midwest snips for years! Retired now!
Also, slightly lean the snip the direction of the cut.
Must have strong hands and forearms to use those snips LOL always call them scissors because that's what they do, even though 29 gauge steel is fairly easy to cut 26 gauge you've got to work and God forbid you get ahold of having to cut 100 different items of 24 gauge, it doesn't sound like very much in between those three different gauges of Steel but you put your hands and forearms to work cutting those different gauges you will then know
Who makes the long snips?