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In the US we have a place called Harbor Freight that carry what they call a Windsor Design (whatever that means) No. 33 bench plane for $14.99. Took one of those, Sharpie marked the 7 inch radius and ground away. Dipping it in water ever few seconds to keep it from overheating seems like it only took a few minutes. With sandpaper or even a course diamond stone that would probably take quite a while. This is not the run of the mill steel, it’s tool steel, very hard. A hacksaw probably would not even scratch it.
What you might do is find a trade school that has a machine shop and ask the instructor if you or he would grind the radius. I imagine most would do it for free. Lots of small, private, auto repair shops probably have grinders and would do it for almost nothing.