Lacking a torch myself and often times needing roundstock and only
having flat stock to make round out of, I resort to my rotary table
and make em.May be a bit time consuming in some cases. I have made a
heap of round items and disks form plate stock, and ifnish turn it on
a lathe.Works fine....Fire axe may be quicker, but like I said I do
not own one and I hate doing interuped cuts etc if I can help it.

I do have a metal cutting bandsaw which is what I rough out plate
stock on now, which certainly would be better than using a sabre saw
IMHO.


Doing it on a RT is not a bad job in all reality though.

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:08:01 -0800, Jim Stewart
wrote:
I have a piece of CRS, about a foot square
and 1" thick. I want to cut out 2 disks about
4" in diameter. I will ultimately turn and
finish them into flywheels.

Given my tools, here are my options:

1. Rough out the disk with the gas axe,
grind away kerf with angle grinder,
turn on lathe.

2. Mount plate on rotary table, taking small
passes mill out disk, finish on lathe.

3. Try to cut out disk with sabre saw,
finish on lathe. Painful just thinking
about it...

Any other options or suggestions?

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