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Fitting snorkel on 80

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 6:48 pm
by stilivn
As above. headed down to bunnings today to get the 92mm hole saw required, dont have any, closest is 95mm an its $50 odd. Anyone had to do this before know where i can pick one up or want to re-coup some of the $$$ spent on the one u bought. Seems bit heafty seeing as will only use it once.

Re: Fitting snorkel on 80

Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:41 pm
by thrashlux
stilivn wrote:As above. headed down to bunnings today to get the 92mm hole saw required, dont have any, closest is 95mm an its $50 odd. Anyone had to do this before know where i can pick one up or want to re-coup some of the $$$ spent on the one u bought. Seems bit heafty seeing as will only use it once.
trade tools is much better i think they are about 20 -25 bucks and they have the whole range of sizes

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:03 am
by MAD80
i marked out my circle in texta and drilled a series of small holes just inside the line and cut between them tin snips, then used a half round file (could use a big round file) to smooth it out,

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:08 am
by thrashlux
MAD80 wrote:i marked out my circle in texta and drilled a series of small holes just inside the line and cut between them tin snips, then used a half round file (could use a big round file) to smooth it out,
sounds like tooo much hard work to me

I used the plasma cutter with a block of wood on the inside of the guard

all done in less than 40 seconds :cool:

Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:25 pm
by AUSCRUZER
If you have a jigsaw use that.Works fine

Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:54 pm
by HIL01X
AUSCRUZER wrote:If you have a jigsaw use that.Works fine
What I used. Just put on plenty of masking tape.