5 Must-have Tools for Any Sheet Metal Business

By Cass Jacoby. 

Ready to upgrade your sheet metal tools? Look no further than these select tools from John Stortz & Sons. 

John Stortz & Sons are well known for their hand tools and carrying some of the best specialty roofing tools, including a wide range of hand tools like seamers, benders, tin snips, soldering irons and slate roofing tools! Read on to learn what tools these experts recommend for sheet metal workers.  

1 - Rau 106 Eaves Seam Locker  

Still using hand seamers to make eaves crimp with 3″ hand seamers? Why not give your forearms a break and start locking in your rake with a tool that was designed to do the job. The RAU106 Eaves locking tool is a definite must have when working with metal roof panels and hemmed eaves edges. This tool makes edge crimping fast and easy and leaves a nice uniform looking eaves edge.  

Watch this tool in action! 

2 - XL-150 Perfect Bender  

Roll benders are the best tools for bending on the jobsite or up on the roof with no need for an onsite rollformer. Make tapered and curved panels with ease. Plus, the tool is very versatile. According to this article by Stortz & Sons, you can combine this tool with a disc bender and, it creates hems on the pieces over the length of a brake that are perfect for long rake edges. Add in a Falz bender set can and you can create the male and female profiles which are perfect for tapered panels, short runs or job site profiles. 

Watch this tool in action! 

3 - Double Falz Seamer  

Did you know that there is a way to seam your panels without carrying 50 pounds onto the roof? That’s right, with this cordless drill attachment you can work faster with less effort to seam 24 gauge, and 1 or 1 1/2″ panels. 

Watch this tool in action! 

4 - Stubai Combination Snips  

As a roofer, you know just how important precision is to a job well done. The Stubai snips are sharp and durable, perfect for exact cuts on softer materials. 

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5 - Biegetec Finish Hand Seamer  

It is no surprise why this is the most popular mechanical lock bending tool. It’s PVC protected surface doesn’t leave scratches on painted metal while doing both stage one and two of the mechanical lock. Seam faster with no marring with this optimizing finish hand seamer. 

Watch this tool in action! 

Visit John Stortz & Sons website to learn more about these sheet metal tools and for more videos of their exceptional tools being used on the roof. 

Learn more about John Stortz & Son in their RoofersCoffeeShop® Directory or visit stortz.com. 

About Cass  

Cass works as a reporter/writer for RoofersCoffeeShop, AskARoofer and MetalCoffeeShop. When she isn’t writing about roofs, she is putting her Master degree to work writing about movies and dancing with her plants.