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What tool to cut holes in 5mm steel plate?
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Posted 4 months ago #
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Gas axes may lead to the world's largest barbeque
Invitation accepted, I'll bring a bottle and a bag of burgers
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Aaahh
however you'd get several pigs on there hor an almighty hog roast!!
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I got myself a stock of those 2mm cutting discs, and chalked out a vent design on the tank. I will try and give it a go tomorrow.
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So I guess you are not flipping it over to use the base for a roof!
What are your plans for that now?
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b1galus is hopefully find me some roofing sheets, I am going to bolt some timber to the sides, make a couple of cross joists and just nail the sheets up there.
It's way too heavy to 'flip' and move around.
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It worked a treat!
Thanks for the design idea Stoner.
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you need to paint some eyes and lips on that
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I see Charlie Brown's jumper
be super gentle with those thin cutting disks and you should get plenty of milage out of them
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nice work. did it take long?
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i'm based in Stirling, just down the road. Can we organise a McMoonter open day where we come and gas about with cool stuff at your place? I can bring chainsaws
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nice work. did it take long?
A couple of minutes per side. It did consume the discs though. 5mm is thick plate. I was surprised just how heavy each cut out was.
The narrow 2mm discs are too thin for my grinder centre to clamp down onto. I used a second partially worn disc to bulk it out. I used each disc until it matched the packer's circumference. I'll try and find a big washer instead to complete the job and use up the part worn discs.
Open day? Well, the garden will be open this summer. Watch this space, it could be special. Diamond geezer possible visit.
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Often grinder disc center "nut" is flipable, when using thin discs have the raised center on the out side the flat side should clamp the disc good and tight.
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^ what itstig says is what mine does.
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My grinder is pretty retro, probably early nineties. My pegged lock washer is flat on one side and has the stepped centre on the other. I could flip it, but I'd need the stepped centre to centralise the disc. I think a big washer under the disc will do it, its only a mm or more I need to take up the slack.
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Cereal box cardboard 1 or 2 layers are ok substitutes for washers and the disc doesn't slip
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