Well I'll find out tomorrow, I hired my Uncle to do the onsite welding (he has a portable) and he'll be doing the first few cuts tomorrow. I'll be golfing in Northern Michigan for the next 3 days
He'll give me the skinny on how it went. Here is the irony of the whole thing:
We own a tube cutting company
I have personally cut over a million tubes by hand myself with manual cold saws(I figured it out once). Infact we even have our own model cold saws that we make! But we just never did anything like this and we don't use bandsaws for anything but fab work. 99% of our production work is on thin wall stainless to 4" diameter so this was an oddball. We'll get through it and maybe learn a little something.
Doing these things in a factory environment is worlds different than doing them on a cold rainy rooftop with only 110V and no air supply. I'm sure some of you guys understand.