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I have a, roughly, 400 mm dia steel barrel that I am wanting to surround with vertical wood strips to hide the steel underneath. I am planning on using recycled flooring boards. These boards are 90 mm wide x 22 mm thick. So, if we do some quick calculations it comes out to approx 445 mm dia, multiplied by pi gives me 1398 mm circumference. Divide that by 82 mm, (allowing for sawing the edges of the boards) comes out to close enough to 17 boards. If I have it all correct so far, then I think I need to divide 360* by 17 which gives me 21.2*, (this being the included angle between adjacent boards), so now if I saw each board with a 10.5* angle on each edge, in theory I should get pretty close to a full circle that closes in my steel cylinder and has (if I am good enough with the saw) evenly mated edges.
Did I do all that correctly?
Cheers Phil
Did I do all that correctly?
Cheers Phil