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Mark the Diameter Line

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Circle Sunday! Prefect circles without fancy tools! #diy #tools #metal #home #welder

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What happens here

Take a framing square and a marker. Place the framing square on the metal plate. Align it where you want the center of your circle to be. Use the marker to draw a straight line along the edge of the framing square. This line will represent the diameter of your desired circle. For this demonstration, an 8-inch diameter is chosen, so the line should be 8 inches long.

Goal: Establish the desired diameter of the circle on the metal

Tools and materials

  • Framing Square — To draw a straight line that defines the diameter of the circle
  • Marker — To draw lines on the metal surface
  • Metal Plate — The surface being marked

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What up? It's Circle Sunday, and today we're going to be drawing a circle on a piece of metal. So, let's get after it. All right, so take your framing square and just wherever you want to draw your circle at to cut it out of your metal, go ahead and do whatever diameter you want. Our case, we're going to do 8 in. So, I'm going to put a line 8 in. Take my magnets and I'm going to put them right on the line. It's important that you put your magnets on the opposite side of where you're going to draw your circle. So, in our case, our

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