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RE: Making New Gear Change Handles - Bill Gruby - 04-07-2013
Lookin good so far Ed. You're not on the clock, take your time.
"Billy G"
RE: Making New Gear Change Handles - DaveH - 04-08-2013
Looking very nice Ed,
DaveH
RE: Making New Gear Change Handles - PixMan - 04-08-2013
Might as well make jewelry out of them! Run around them with a corner rounding cutter, blend with a 3M Scotchbrite or Norton Beartex wheel.
RE: Making New Gear Change Handles - EdK - 04-09-2013
(04-08-2013, 08:38 PM)PixMan Wrote: Might as well make jewelry out of them! Run around them with a corner rounding cutter, blend with a 3M Scotchbrite or Norton Beartex wheel.
I plan on rounding them over and milling an angle on them with a ball end mill. Overkill but what the hell. I'm trying to make them similar in shape to the original handles.
Ed
RE: Making New Gear Change Handles - sasquatch - 04-09-2013
Looking good Ed.
RE: Making New Gear Change Handles - Mayhem - 04-09-2013
Nice work Ed
RE: Making New Gear Change Handles - Dave J - 04-09-2013
Hi Ed,
I have never seen this thread, great work and they will last a life time. Look froward to seeing them finished.
I may have missed it but are you doing anything on the front, like a thinning out a place for your fingers?
Dave
RE: Making New Gear Change Handles - EdK - 04-09-2013
(04-09-2013, 08:42 AM)Dave J Wrote: Hi Ed,
I have never seen this thread, great work and they will last a life time. Look froward to seeing them finished.
I may have missed it but are you doing anything on the front, like a thinning out a place for your fingers?
Dave
Dave,
Yes, I'll be using the ball end mill to sculpt out some of the metal. That is if I can figure out a good way to hold the blanks to mill them now that they are angled and no longer a rectangle.
Ed
RE: Making New Gear Change Handles - Mayhem - 04-09-2013
Bench vise and a half-round file perhaps
RE: Making New Gear Change Handles - EdK - 04-09-2013
(04-09-2013, 10:40 AM)Mayhem Wrote: Bench vise and a half-round file perhaps
Who to you think I am, Bob?
Ed