Thanks Chris (and Roger, again) for the offer of a more suitable tool! But, we're done (assuming the bits actually fit when we hand it over to the fella doing the welding)...
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I'm thinking of marketing the saw as a meditation aid, that and a few metres of steel gives you time to escape the harsh realities of existence and enter an alternative, vacant zone.
I think my distrust of fast spinning cutting things comes from when I was 18, left school and worked for a local builder for a year. The very worst job was carrying buckets of 'muck' up a massive, wobbly 3-section ladder so he could fix tiles on the roof, I was terrified; but then there was the stone saw, a huge thing that'd cut your leg off as soon as look at you. I was told the story of one that swung from a scaffold and cut I-can't-remember-what off a fella working below, and of the dangers of catches, and that was it for H&S. I really hated that thing.
But we're going to get one - at first, for use on other rusty bits of the car and, when he's had some experience with someone who knows what they're doing, he can use it to cut metal.
eta - Dave, I had an 850 T5, not quite as athletic looking as that one and never had it on two wheels, thankfully. I really regret part-exing that car, I got a few hundred for it in exchange for a V70.