Ryobi cut off tool to cut corrugated plastic roofing panel?

[bridgetchicken]

I don't have a pickup truck. Will the following tool be able to cut corrugated plastic roofing panels so that it can fit in my car? And how do I make it cut straight across the plastic panel? Do I use a metal straight edge to help guide it or do I just try to make the cut almost perfectly straight with my hand? I will be doing this in the parking lot of home depot.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Yes, it should. Yes, you should use a straight edge. You can also snap a chalk line and follow by hand. Won't be quite as clean (I use a plug in angle grinder and a pencil) but it will work.

They won't cut for you?

 

[Captain13]

You can cut the corrugated plastic with straight cut tin snips as well. Same type used to cut galvanized tin. Looks like a great big pair of scissors.

Like these: https://www.lowes.com/pd/CRAFTSMAN-2-in-1055-Snips/1000594743

 

[sdm111]

Snips can split plastic roofing. Use that tool but get a plywood blade and turn it backwards. Use a chalk line to pop a line. The backwards plywood blade will leave a clean cut

 

[Captain13]

The corrugated plastic at Home Depot and Lowes is relatively pliable. I just enclosed a greenhouse and including the soffit, probably made 20 plus cuts with no splits using the snips. The older corrugated plastic was a lot more brittle but the new stuff, not so much.

 

[EOD Daddy]

If you ask them at the store they may cut the material for you for free. It just cost you the question. If they will you saved money and possible head ache.

 

[-Chanticleer-]

If you ask them at the store they may cut the material for you for free. It just cost you the question. If they will you saved money and possible head ache.

In my experience they won’t cut plastic material at Home Depot just wood. Ended up using a friends truck to haul.

 

[perkolator]

I think that tool would be fine. I always used a circular saw on plastic paneling, basically just a bigger version of that tool.