Re: Cutting advice please

Another trick is to use a cold chisel to raise a sliver on the metal
and heat that to get started. Useful on thick material where getting
the metal red hot takes a long time.

Dan
Leo Lichtman wrote:

>
> One trick to being able to start the cut earlier is to drill a small hole,
> and start cutting as soon as the edge of the hole gets red. This also helps
> when you don't have enough heat--once you get the oxygen to start burning
> the steel, you really don't depend on the preheat, as dcaster and R
> Zimmerman pointed out.

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