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PeterE:
Thank you both for info. Then I agree with mattinker that making a special "washer" that fits inside the hollow pin will be the best way forward, unless one want turn the thing from scratch for the practice and joy of making swarf. Anyway, it is a very useful little tool that perferably comes in pairs ...

BR

/Peter

howsitwork?:
Thanks for the idea re gudgeon pins!

Can I add to the list of "thing to make" - pair of nylon inserts to fit in the tail stock and head stock barrel to keep swarf out. I made the headstock one small enough to fit inside the chuck down it's throat. You know it out if you need to put stuff through.Also rare earth magnet in a 35mm film pot is great for picking up swarf. put a plastic bag over it, drop in swarf then remove bag containing swarf and bin.

I made a bigger version using a plastic pill pot and magnetron magnet from an old microwave ( but caerful as these magnets contain a few "nasty" elements so care removing.

Regards ian

Houtenkrullen:
Arbalist, Pekka, Matthew, Peter, you all thanks for the info on making a cylindrical square. Guess now I have to get my feet wet and try to make one.
As for the "gudgeon pin", I am not into motors, and hardly know what it is, let alone where to find one.
But making one from scratch will be a good project!

Pekka, I replied to your toolgrinder post. Have you seen it?

Peter

mattinker:
I did a search for Wrist pin in Dutch it came out as "zuigerpen" on line dictionaries are not always very good! It is a pin that connects the piston to the connecting rod. a heavy vehicle or bus garage might be able to help.

Regards, Matthew.

Metalman:
Thanks PekkaNF for providing a link to my Precision Square pages on my website.

Brass_Machine, you could look at my website where the are very many workshop tooling projects ranging from a Mini Depth Gauge (small) http://www.homews.co.uk/page116.html to a Milling Head for the lathe (large),  http://www.homews.co.uk/page158.html  with very many projects in between.

The best place for you to start, and any others not conversent with my website, is the book style index here http://www.homews.co.uk/page463.html

The website has around 600 pages of which about 500 are either metalworking projects or "how to" articles

Harold Hall

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