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Offline Gerhard Olivier

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Radius knurling?
« on: October 22, 2009, 04:20:09 PM »
On the lathe im fixing is a lot of knobs with knurled heads but they are knurled on a radius not flat -so how do I

After a while of  :scratch: I figured I already have the tool for it.

http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt161/geroli/NART10.jpgRadius knurling?

So I took a knob cut a small radius at the end and indented the top as the old ones would be leaving something that look like a pumpkin.

http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt161/geroli/NART9.jpgRadius knurling?

The mod of the toool looks like this.  Knurling wheel ( fine straight) on a mount with a brass pin to rotate on.
http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt161/geroli/NART11.jpgRadius knurling?

After setting the tool and some (lots) of WD40 applied some presure to the tool and after some gentle rotation it looked like this.

http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt161/geroli/NART12.jpgRadius knurling?
http://i608.photobucket.com/albums/tt161/geroli/NART13.jpgRadius knurling?

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Re: Radius knurling?
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2009, 04:34:09 PM »
Neat Job Gerhard  :clap: :clap:

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Re: Radius knurling?
« Reply #2 on: October 22, 2009, 04:36:44 PM »
Excellent, that was a really nice bit of brain power there  :bow:

Looks terrific  :clap:
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Re: Radius knurling?
« Reply #3 on: October 22, 2009, 10:09:42 PM »
Gerhard,
The ball turner strikes again, nice mod! :nrocks:

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Re: Radius knurling?
« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2009, 11:04:47 PM »
Ball Turners...is there ANYTHING they can't do?  :thumbup:   :nrocks:
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Re: Radius knurling?
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2009, 02:14:49 AM »
Gerhard

Thinking outside the box again? Job well done :ddb: :ddb:

Cheers  :beer:

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Offline Gerhard Olivier

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Re: Radius knurling?
« Reply #6 on: October 23, 2009, 04:03:24 AM »
Thanks for the comments.

It is a wonderfull feeling when you do a small simple mod AND it works so well.

Back to the other current projects  :proj: ITS SO CONFUSING.

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Offline jim

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Re: Radius knurling?
« Reply #7 on: October 23, 2009, 04:30:07 AM »
impresive :clap:
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Re: Radius knurling?
« Reply #8 on: October 23, 2009, 12:13:26 PM »
More thinking "Outside the box"    ..............  nice one Gerhard  :thumbup:

I need to make a new ball turner to suit the Boxford, looks like I'll need to get my "Design Head" on first to incorporate all these great ideas  :smart:

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Re: Radius knurling?
« Reply #9 on: October 23, 2009, 11:40:44 PM »
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Gerhard
It's the small nuggets of pure gold, like this one that keep me watching the forums. This one is a solution I'd been looking for for quite some time. Well done!! Now I hope you'll understand when I steal it and add it to my own arsenal of tools....LOL

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Offline Gerhard Olivier

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Re: Radius knurling?
« Reply #10 on: October 24, 2009, 03:10:17 AM »
Quote from: cedge on October 23, 2009, 11:40:44 PM
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Now I hope you'll understand when I steal it and add it to my own arsenal of tools....LOL

Steve

Thanks and steal all you want.  It would repay some small part of all the ideas I have stolen over time.

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