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You can grind away on any part you want. It can only get better, that's for sure!
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Door wedge?
I thought it was a wheel chock for my band saw!
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02-16-2013, 11:00 PM
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Well that is the beauty Willie, they can be used for many jobs. Apparently they can also be used for measuring, setting tool hight, marking out etc. Perhaps someone should start a thread about their uses, as I'm sure there are many more uses.
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Huh.
I could have sworn there was a discussion about that in the "The Other Measuring Tools" thread but after checking... apparently I dreamed that one up.
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02-17-2013, 12:49 PM
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Had to get out of the cabinet shop, the dust was getting to me. I'm building some camera gear for my son, (ongoing project), we needed an angle drive for a follow focus, (gizmo that allows you to focus from the side of the camera). Had some little brass bevel gears in one of the junk drawers, here's the start of the housing.
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Looks good Greg, but I think that drill bit might wear out your brass bushing pretty quickly.
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Interesting little project there Greg. Are there any bearings under those hex nuts, and is there going to be any sort of backlash take-up? When follow-focusing with a camera lens, any slop can cause a momentary out of focus condition. It appears that you'll have about a 4:1 increase or reduction in rotational movement between the input and output shafts. Which is which? What kind of camera and application is this to be used for?
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Back to the shop today to touch up the sliding member of Willie's planer gauge. The camera and lighting on this photo do make the finish look a lot worse than it really is, sorry about that. There are visual grind marks, though hard to feel. A quick lapping job would make them disappear. At least now both pieces have the same finish.