Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Originally Posted by
rgsparber
I don't know why, but I have a facination with forming rounded corners on flat stock. The standard way to do this is with a filing button. You drill a hole in the stock, run a bolt through the button and the hole, and add a nut to secure the assembly. Then file down to the button. That hole really bugs me. I did figure out a way to avoid drilling the hole by using hot glue to secure the button. That didn't satisfy me so I kept thinking about the problem. Can't say that I'm done with this journey, but here is my latest "day trip" - a tool that lets me cut a nice 7/8th inch radius in sheet stock. No hole is drilled and no glue is used.
If you are interested, please see
https://rick.sparber.org/CenterlessFilingButton.pdf
Your comments are welcome. All of us are smarter than any one of us.
Thanks,
Rick
Really admire the elegant and smooth shapes that seem visually simple but are so difficult for me to achieve. This rounded corner is a perfect example--mine have been so inelegant and unsmooth, but now I shall gratefully steal this idea and hopefully get some satisfactory results.