Drill-mill fixure for central Dremel mounting

[Carnel]

You guys break me up some days. You make a threaded threaded collar for the Dremel tool, one of you pisses away hours doing a single point thread on a lathe, the next goes on about the cost of the drill and tap, and I go buy a nut with the right thread and turn the flats off and weld or braze it in place. Might get really lazy, and not even turn off the flats.

Y'all forget the KISS principle in a heartbeat, makes me shake my head.

I've got a friend like that, every damn job requires it to done to show off his artistry, stroke his damn ego, and takes way too long to do. I don't ask him to do anything for me, he was doing a transmission rebuild for me and got pissed off when I walked over to my transmission, put a cupcake with a lit candle on it, and sang "Happy Birthday" to it! Told him in a year, he'd had more then enough time to git it done, time to get his thumb out of his ass and DO IT. Also told him be glad he's a friend; anyone else, I'd have taken a 2# mason's hammer and pounded the thumb in further, so he could feel up his tonsils!

It was done by week's end.

Murph

Hi Murph1090, I like your reaction very much! It confronts me with my motivation working in my shop.
A sidestep: the thread of the Dremel is not standard (3/4", 12 tpi, 60 deg) so the nut which you want to buy isn't available, I think, and when, you have to buy a full box of 100 or so.
But why spending such a lot of time? In fact this project was growing while working on it. When the opportunity of 3-D printing came up my friend an I were wondering whether one can 3-D print screw threads. And after producing some try outs whith too narrow threads the idea of a tap came up. So, the whole project was playing. And that gives me satisfaction. I do my projects out of hobby and production time is of no importance for me. Being 84 I can afford it. I am glad having enough power to do these stuff.
So, in my opinion, an important difference in motivation is whether production or playing is your motivation.
Thanx for you reply!