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Monthly Archives: May 2021
Sander Replacement Part
My friend Scott managed to blow up the inner disk of a rotary disc sander. The challenge is to replace it with a 3-D printed part. I’m guessing the probability of success is very low. A lot of effort went into shock mounting on the original, and a printed part will be brittle. Also it […]
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Tagged as: 3-D printing, replacement part, sander
Lathe Upgrades
Recently I’ve been working on a couple of upgrades to my old Craftsman (Atlas) 6 inch metal lathe. One thing I never bothered doing on the lathe was single point threading, because the lathe had manual change gears and I didn’t have a good enough reason to get into tearing down and setting up the […]
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Tagged as: DRO, Electronic Leadscrew, lathe