This tool is made to do exactly what you are doing:

http://malco.malcoproducts.com/products/shear/hc1.asp

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"Peter Jason" wrote in message
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Need a 9" dia hole in a 20# sheet metal
surround of a boiler.

The hole must be neat and cut in situ.

Is there a gadget constructed like a compass
that when rotated often enough will cut such
a hole?

Rather like the typical rotating glass cutter
used for cutting large holes in plate glass.

Please help, Frank