The manual disc punching machine is a compact disc cutter with a quality sliding rail with a ball bearing for precision cutting. The compact disc cutter can be easily placed into a glove box via a transition chamber with a diameter larger than 230mm. This coin cell disc cutter is manually operated and is designed for cutting round discs from a thin metal sheet /foil (< 0.5 mm) or separator film (<30um). The finished discs can be used as electrode and separator discs for split test cells and coin cells, it is good for battery researchers as well as TEM sample preparation.