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Post by pauls on Jan 18, 2014 23:19:33 GMT -5
These are a few buffs I have made recently, I started out just buying a nut and welding that to a washer, as in the black and the grey 600 grit ones, they are both different size metric shafts and rather than buy expensive metric taps I just did the cheap and nasty method. Everything is still spun in the lathe and trued up though so its not necessarily quicker. The black one I made for the club and the grey one goes on an arbor that I got second hand that I turned into a demo unit that I take to our show. The rusty 240# one is bolted onto a piece of road sign aluminium. This one and the two cast aluminium polishing buffs slide on the left hand end of my arbors and the set screw locks down onto a flat on the shaft, it saves mucking around with left hand threads. The two polishing buffs are the result of more playing around with metal, It takes quite some work to fabricate bosses and bolt backing plates and get everything running true so I wondered if moulding and casting my own in Aluminium would be quicker and easier. Its not, but its fun. Now I have the pattern and have my furnace working properly I can make as many as I need out of old scrap. The leather lamb skin pads are held on with a stainless steel band, just wet the leather and stretch it over the backing plate and hammer the stainless band into place.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2014 8:45:41 GMT -5
Cool post. Can you post some pic's the next time you cast a batch?
Tim
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Jan 22, 2014 11:36:34 GMT -5
Awesome. I envy your skills. Casting seems so out there.
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 22, 2014 21:37:13 GMT -5
Now thats some nifty ideas!
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