Technical Circle cutting torch attachment

This thing I made is probably very common. I needed to cut some holes and came up with it. I have used it forever. The pivot is angled to use with small holes and turned around for large holes. It is awkward as hell but is useful.

 

Nice ! its amazing what a nice cut can be made when the torch is steadied with a mechanical device. good idea there !

 

I used t9 work with a guy that had retired from the railroad in Nashville .
He had more tools then I had ever saw,,,,,and that was just what he had at work .
He had many more at home .
Anyway,,,he had an apparatus that was similar to that ,,,it would cut perfect circles in steel with a torch .

Jerry has been gone a few years now,,,,,boy,,,I miss him .
There wasn’t anything he couldn’t make .

Tommy

 

Made this out of an electrical clamp, probably cost a lot today, mine was cheap in 1969 !

 

Hi Marty, fun talking to you at Toutle. This one brings back some memories, good and a little sad. Been working in fab shops a long time now, had a circle burner almost exactly like this. The good, I got it from a very talented fella when he retired who had gotten it from another man when he retired, it had all three of our initials carved in it, kind of a legacy thing, made that simple tool pretty special to me. The sad, left it on a torch one day during lunch at a time when our shop was very busy with a lot of unknowns working there, yep somebody walked off with it. Curses!

 

I made an attachment to cut circles with my torch once


Mike

 

Made a nice one when I was stationed at Clark AB Philippines, used to make a lot of manhole covers with it as they frequently disappeared before we started replacing them with rebar-reinforced concrete ones.

 

^^^ possible tis a flexible Fixture...System!