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    Cheap Tubing Notcher for Your Lathe

    A milling attachment is heavy and cumbersome, and there is always the chance of accidentally dropping it on the ways. I came up with this piece to cut notches in tubing without resorting to a milling attachment.

    Chuck up a hex shank hole saw, mount this little attachment, and you are good to go. The longitudinal power feed makes it automatic. It cuts solids like butter as well.

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    Great idea and I will keep it in mind.

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    I was thinking along the same lines but stuck on fixing centre height for different tubes... Your V block only needs setting once so sorts that. Thanks.

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    Thanks tmate3! We've added your Tubing Notcher Attachment to our Lathe Accessories category,
    as well as to your builder page: tmate3's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:




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    Very good idea! Thanks!

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    Congratulations tmate3 - your Lathe Tubing Notcher Attachment is the Homemade Tool of the Week!

    Excellent solution, and I expect we'll be seeing more people adapting your clever idea.

    Some more good builds from this week:

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    tmate3 - we've added your tool entry to our All Homemade Tool of the Week winners post. And, you'll now notice the wrench-on-pedestal award in the awards showcase in your postbit, visible beneath your username:



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    Nice work!

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    Very nice solution. Did a similar thing on suspension parts when helping a friend build a street rod back in the 70's. My cobbled together method worked, but was not nearly as elegant.



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