Metal cutting circular saw for beveling plate?
Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2021 7:49 pm
Believe I saw a thread about this a long time ago, unless you don't exactly need the practice, it's not much fun to do an open root weld with gouged up uneven poorly beveled plate that you tried to do with an angle grinder and a rather lacking amount of skill with it. I've gotten to where I can do a clean even enough grind with a cubitron resin disc that they'd actually be usable, but it's makes one hell of a shop mess and definitely isn't easy. While I know a track torch will cut a perfect bevel if set right, I don't exactly have that kind of money, nor a few grand for another beveling tool.
Enter seeing it talked about with a dry cut circ saw with an adjustable cut angle and a straight edge, while it would be hard to use on a precut coupon if you had a sheet of plate it seems like it'd be by far the cheapest, fastest and still precise way to cut an even bevel for use as practice test plates. Has anyone here experimented with doing exactly that and can tell me if it works in practice nearly as well as in theory?
Enter seeing it talked about with a dry cut circ saw with an adjustable cut angle and a straight edge, while it would be hard to use on a precut coupon if you had a sheet of plate it seems like it'd be by far the cheapest, fastest and still precise way to cut an even bevel for use as practice test plates. Has anyone here experimented with doing exactly that and can tell me if it works in practice nearly as well as in theory?