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#1 mathewking21

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Posted 08 June 2015 - 15:01

Dear friends,

 

What kinds of places could you take 2 1/2 outside diameter aluminum tubing to to get cut shorter?



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#2 Catalina Park

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Posted 11 June 2015 - 08:41

http://cars.forumsee...be-cutting.html

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#3 Joe Bosworth

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Posted 11 June 2015 - 21:17

Place a string tightly around the tube in order to make a cut line that starts and finishes in the same place.

 

Mark the cut line with a fine marking pen.

 

Place in your vice with dutiful care depending on tube wall thickness.

 

Cut on line with a fine high speed circular parting tool depending on tube thickness.

 

Use a fine file to break the sharp corners.

 

Might take ten minutes (or less) depending on how well set up your garage bench is.

 

Is this question real???

 

Regards ;-)



#4 Canuck

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Posted 12 June 2015 - 13:20

No, it's not.

#5 Chubby_Deuce

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Posted 13 June 2015 - 00:52

Bizarre. All of his threads are. They're oddly close to being relevant too. I assumed some kind of embedded spam but don't see any.



#6 Magoo

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Posted 14 June 2015 - 20:10

I wonder if it has any human component. For example, if we invited it to join us in the Deltic thread, if it would understand and follow. 



#7 Catalina Park

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Posted 15 June 2015 - 02:48

Well a robot's got to have a hobby.

#8 Greg Locock

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Posted 15 June 2015 - 10:25

https://xkcd.com/810/