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jim
 
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Default welding, cutting

i saw a show on tv, designing, making fancy motorcycles: the guy doing
the cutting had a long beard on and looked like an old time motorcyle
rider.. he had what looked like a 8 in. wide by 30 in. circle pad(it was
probably spun on a lathc or something to get it to that shape from
sheetmetal and welded to gether and then he drawed the design for some
m/c fender on it and then used a torch to cut the shape.. it had a very
small flame on it(no dials to turn like an acethelen cutting torch...
there was one hose on it about 1 in or so and that was it.. i could not
see if he had a ground wire on the metal he was cutting, there was no
extra flame when he cut, just looked like the same size flame before he
put it to the metal as when cutting??? does anyone know what he might
have been using.. it looked to easy to do... he just moved the torch?
around like an artist would move a pencil and the metal what was waste
was just falling off... looked like a pretty good way of doing some work
if i could find out what he did and how to do it.....