Beautiful heavy duty knob

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Mar 9, 2020, 05:24 PM
rendoman

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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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Mar 9, 2020, 07:14 PM
Altair


Thanks rendoman! We've added your Lathe Knobs to our Lathe Accessories category,
as well as to your builder page: rendoman's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

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Mar 10, 2020, 11:45 PM
Dimsa

Thanks , it's very interesting idea!
Mar 11, 2020, 06:49 AM
rendoman

I'm glad you like!
Mar 11, 2020, 08:48 AM
billd

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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Attachment 33914 Attachment 33915[/QUOTE If you have power feeds on your lathe spoke wheels can be real bad grabbers of cloth etc. just saying :headshake:
Nice job BTW:)
Mar 11, 2020, 01:01 PM
rendoman

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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

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Mar 11, 2020, 02:36 PM
DIYer


Thanks rendoman! We've added your Horn Stand to our Miscellaneous category,
as well as to your builder page: rendoman's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

<div id="blocks"> <div class="block b1 pngfix"> <div class="bimg"> <div> <a href="https://www.homemadetools.net/homemade-horn-stand"> <img src="/uploads/230410/homemade-horn-stand.jpeg"/> </a> </div> </div> <div class="head pngfix"></div> <div class="left pngfix"></div> <div class="right pngfix"></div> <div class="blockover b1 pngfix"> <div class="title"> <a href="https://www.homemadetools.net/homemade-horn-stand">Horn Stand</a> <span> by <a href="https://www.homemadetools.net/builder/rendoman">rendoman</a></span> </div> <div class="tags">tags: <a href='https://www.homemadetools.net/tag/stand'>stand</a> </div> </div> </div> </div>
Mar 15, 2020, 05:57 PM
TrickieDickie

That could be adapted to my mill vise