My drum sander is in storage, I need a bigger garage. But that’s a great idea!!!Cut it square and use a drum sander with 40 grit to shape the cut.
My drum sander is in storage, I need a bigger garage. But that’s a great idea!!!Cut it square and use a drum sander with 40 grit to shape the cut.
Yea I get that, I just like the clean cut I was able to get with the hole saw.Look on YouTube. Lots of videos on how to notch tubing without a hole saw.
Steve.
I use one like this, Quick Change Sanding Drum Set, 4 Pc. (harborfreight.com)My drum sander is in storage, I need a bigger garage. But that’s a great idea!!!
I’ve already got some of those too, in storage.I use one like this, Quick Change Sanding Drum Set, 4 Pc. (harborfreight.com)
If I think I understand you used a hole saw to cut the round tubes to get the new pieces to weld in place.
I have used to drill in just flat surfaces of metal and some damn hard oak wood 1/2 wine barrel planter drain holes. I broke the bit for the center of the hole saw, but found another to use anyway.
I think keep checking to see if the chuck is tight. I wish they still had the key type, my hand affected by spinal compressed disk makes grasping the chuck with out key very bad for me. I expect I will make a strap wrench to get leverage for keyless tools. Just I don't want too much torque and break the chuck. Happy medium?
Annoyed the heck out of neighbors with the screech on metal drilling back in the 90's making a boat rack for my truck. Had to let cool many times with the 7/16 thick angle iron and also with the wood same. Wood about inch thick meant lots of heat. Careful not to start a fire.
Metal cutting fluid a lot along with time to cool often while drilling. I would let the drill spin with no load to let bit cool faster. Each time I drilled a bit and stopped I would brush away shavings and knock the shaving out of the hole saw.
Doing this stuff by hand can wear you out. Thinking of breaking out the drill press but the barrels would have to be held in place for drilling which would take time. Just their weight on the ground kept the steady for hand drilling.
Come to think of it time is what I have now so no need to be so fast as to hurt myself. Think maybe my handle Measure Twice might change to Mechanical Advantage?
You have a nice project coming along, will be watching!
PS: HF has a nice set 5ea of two sided pilot drills for cheap, and they work really well!
You are correct in the angles and using the hole saw. The o my saving grace is the Pilot joke once drilled keeps things alighted fairly well.No doubt it is difficult at angles, especially if the cutter is not contacting in a flat surface and you only have partial cutting while the rest is in the air so to speak without back pressure. I'm afraid of stuff like this and would rather a drill press.
Dremel with cutter wheel or Die Grinder using speed control with cutter wheel I have used to make cuts along markings. I also save cutter wheels up to a point. No so that there very small and easily crack and fly off. I use a helmet that protects neck area and a leather apron I got for MIG welding. The various sizes after being used some then have various radius angles I find handy. Too large a cutter sometimes also does not fit where I need to grind away a cut.
HF Die Grinder I have I use with the speed control as I feel the grinder would self destruct otherwise. Speed control only consists of a variable resistor in side I think I saw when I got it. It really only adjust a little at the end of the range which is sucky, but the grinder motor probably can't work properly past a point slowed to.
Note in the past I had some one asking to borrow the grinder to use to fix a car key starter where the person that was said to give this guy the job, had lost the key to the car. Not really judging that, but what was he going to do was grind the area where the key goes in on the steering column. I saw that there was no way for it to contact a completely flat surface. In addition there was metal and plastic which I would feel would probably end badly with the whole grinder flying wildly. The guy was a bit upset I did not loan the grinder to him.
I know of some one else that used a grinder wheel for cutting tile and had a slight mishap with a cut through a few layers of leg skin. I suspect using the leg guards they have may have been best. Rental places like where I worked for a short while pressed for people to use them and they were free with a grinder rental.
I like it!!!You might try using one of these. I've borrowed a friends and It will hold tubing firmly at an angle. If no one has mentioned it cutting oil is a must to get easy cuts.
Steve.
Pipe/Tubing Notcher
Amazing deals on this Pipe/Tubing Notcher at Harbor Freight. Quality tools & low prices.www.harborfreight.com
Agree, I hate it, but OSB is up to $40 a sheet.Sheetrock should be a four letter word. Anyone who does that for a living should have a special place in Heaven.
Steve.
Back on post 324 cutting fluid. I have a quart plastic bottle so old that I think I'll put it into another plastic bottle. Not sure the stuff ages well, but the plastic bottle may get brittle.You might try using one of these. I've borrowed a friends and It will hold tubing firmly at an angle. If no one has mentioned it cutting oil is a must to get easy cuts.
Steve.
Pipe/Tubing Notcher
Amazing deals on this Pipe/Tubing Notcher at Harbor Freight. Quality tools & low prices.www.harborfreight.com
Is that different from 3 in 1 oil or Kroil oil?Back on post 324 cutting fluid. I have a quart plastic bottle so old that I think I'll put it into another plastic bottle. Not sure the stuff ages well, but the plastic bottle may get brittle.
Yes. 3 in 1 lubricating oil and Kroil is penetrating oil. Cutting oil or liquid is it's own thing and will make a difference in the ease and the quality of cutting metal.Is that different from 3 in 1 oil or Kroil oil?