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Todd,

If you REALLY want to do this (and I’m pretty sure you don’t), I wouldn’t cut and shape the piece you plan to use. I’d find a piece of scrap tubing with the right OD, and fill it with sand. I’d get a piece of steel to bend that was the right width, but not cut to length. I’d tack weld the end of that plate to the scrap tube, then heat the piece you want to bend with an oxy/acetylene torch (the cute little MAP gas torches won’t get it hot enough) and wrap it around the tube. I’d over-bend it and cut it off the scrap with an angle grinder. Then I’d cut the piece I wanted.

This would all be if I were in a desert island. I’m not, so I’d probably take my drawing to a shop with real fabrication tools and have my piece laser cut and bent on a CNC press. 

But Bruce is right— just weld the flat stock to the tube. 

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