Robb, Find your dead center Drill a hole at that point.
I always use a piece of 1/8 by 3/4 flat stock to secure in my center hole and then either use a tool and die grinder , a dremmal tool, or a saws-all to cut the circumference of the hole. Obviously there some variables you can either fasten the tracking bar to your cutting tool or simply hold the tool against the bar as you traverse the circle. When I cut the hole in the hood of my El Camino for the ram induction system I actually fastened the tracking bar to the shoe of my saws-all. I was cutting a much larger hole and needed for it to be perfect the first time. I didn't have a lot of El Camino hoods to practice on. HTH Regards Larry Stansifer Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Sun Tzu. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Monitor Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 4:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BlindHandyMan] cutting a hole HI, Thinks for all the information on the pop rivet gun... Now I need any ideas on how to cut a 6-inch round hole in a peace of sheet metal.. Y ears ago I worked in a Plumbing and heating place and if I remember right one of the guys used a thing where you drilled a hole in the center of what you wanted to cut the hole and this tool had a pin that you put in the hole and there was a rod type thing and on the other end you could mount a drill this was adjustable so you could move the drill back and fore so you could get the different size hole. Now as far as I know you used just a regular drill bit and just turned on the drill and turned it around and cut out the hole... Now does this sound like it would work or am I thinking of some thing else??? THANKS ROB from Minnesota [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions >From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the following address for more information: http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws- users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links -- BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach Infowest Spam Trap if this mail (ID 103503158) is spam: Spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=103503158&m=e86b f7e7d671&c=s Not spam: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=103503158&m=e86b f7e7d671&c=n Forget vote: https://spamtrap.infowest.com/canit/b.php?i=103503158&m=e86b f7e7d671&c=f ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS
