Late night Torchwork

Going into this job I was planning on having these plates cnc'd, it would have been the most economical option by far, unfortunately that plan didn't pan out for few reasons so plan B it was.

I cut one section off carefully, preserving as much of the factory cut edge as possible and cleaned it up. I used that plate to make a cardboard template, which I then made some improvements to. This would have been required regardless and if going the cnc route I could have passed this on and they would have used the template to program the burn table. Time restraints meant this wouldn't work, instead I was in the shop hand cutting these at 11 at night after working on site all day to keep things on schedule.

A quick touch up with the grinder and it's hard to tell they were hand cut, not too bad I'd say 😉. The hole was purposely left a bit undersized and I matched it to the existing bore with some on site grinding. Torchwork is a dying art in the trade it seems, many guys working in shops do very little of it with automated cutting being so cheap and available now days. I think its still a very valuable skill to have.

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