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    Beautiful heavy duty knob

    Hi all!
    I just finished a beautiful knob for my horn stand.
    Brass body with 16mm solid A316 rods, M10 threaded. I polished the sides and applied engine turning on the front surface.
    Since here it's impossible to have Cratex rods, (minimum order from US too high for me) I tried in the past the leather pad, nice but not durable solution. Considering the pressure exerted on the plate, the speed and the heat, it was easy to destroy the pad, no matter what glue used.
    This time I tried only a wooden rod, 10 second, one finger on the wheel lever, medium rpm. A mixture of grease and pure silicon carbide is the cutting paste.

    Clearly inspired by a naval wheel or a Remington safe knob. I'm considering to build a couple for my lathe.

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    Thanks rendoman! We've added your Lathe Knobs to our Lathe Accessories category,
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    Thanks , it's very interesting idea!

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    lathe handles like this

    [QUOTE=rendoman;154271]Hi all!
    I just finished a beautiful knob for my horn stand.
    Brass body with 16mm solid A316 rods, M10 threaded. I polished the sides and applied engine turning on the front surface.
    Since here it's impossible to have Cratex rods, (minimum order from US too high for me) I tried in the past the leather pad, nice but not durable solution. Considering the pressure exerted on the plate, the speed and the heat, it was easy to destroy the pad, no matter what glue used.
    This time I tried only a wooden rod, 10 second, one finger on the wheel lever, medium rpm. A mixture of grease and pure silicon carbide is the cutting paste.

    Clearly inspired by a naval wheel or a Remington safe knob. I'm considering to build a couple for my lathe.

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ID:	33915[/QUOTE If you have power feeds on your lathe spoke wheels can be real bad grabbers of cloth etc. just saying
    Nice job BTW

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    Thank you!
    You're right, the rods could gran something if used on power feeds, they should be good for static works.
    Anyway, this couple of horn in particular will be installed soon in my horn stand, I post a couple of pics

    Beautiful heavy duty knob-87996461_10221451220332640_4629745746021711872_o.jpg Beautiful heavy duty knob-85251185_10221309488109423_6872572050175688704_o.jpg

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    Thanks rendoman! We've added your Horn Stand to our Miscellaneous category,
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    That could be adapted to my mill vise



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