Made from recycled wooden pallets, folds flat.
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What’s in the CAD file…
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Materials: 3 x wood fork lift pallets; 12 x 115x92x16mm 8 x 114x70x16mm 24 x 2 1/2"x10 stainless wood screws 3 x m10x80mm stainless coach bolts 3 x m10 bzp nyloc nuts 6 x m10 stainless penny washers
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knoba – chain saw horse – 2018.dxf
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Easy to make (ply & baton) checks accuracy of chopsaw 90° cut
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1 joint 1 cut, or, 2 joints 1 cut…
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Perfect.
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Link to CAD file below
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knoba – Chop Saw Mitre Framing Jig – 2017.dxf
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Taken from Sussex (England) 28th September, 2015.
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knoba – lunar ecplise – 2015.zip
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Sprung loaded silver steel single point captivated by m4 grub screw
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Arbor machined to fit one of my 5c lathe collets
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knoba – Toothed drive centre – 2015.dxf (link below)
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knoba – Toothed drive centre – 2015.dxf
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Magnetic lathe chuck spider provides reference face for repeat cuts.
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Another one for my 4 jaw chuck (material is 5083 aluminium 15mm thick & 3mm x 3mm neodymium magnets).
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The spider also helps with work-holding when turning small parts.
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knoba – Lathe chuck spider – 2015.dxf (link below)
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knoba – Lathe chuck spider – 2015.dxf
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Used for drilling blind holes, in matched faces, for dowelling metal or wood assemblies.
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125mm x 127mm x 15mm 5083 Aluminium Plate
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Glued on cad template (link below)
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Optical centre punch (link below)
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Centre drilled used as fluffer (minimizes deflection) prior to pilot drilling
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Pilot drill all holes 3mm
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6mm drill
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Cut out profile
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Filed. A good selection of files helps; the dreadnought type is especially good on aluminium.
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Cleaned up a little more
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…and a little more
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Homemade edge chamferer/deburrer from an old three square file
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Drilling ready for threading m12 inserts
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Threading
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Countersinking
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Inserts: centre drilling
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Countersinking a relief to stop the slot in the screw snaping the twist drill used in the next operation
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Drilling to finish size
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Stamping sizes on the heads (there are 5 different sized inserts in my set)…
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Inserts fit nice…
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Insert needs to be below the surface on both sides
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Main body finished & inserts finished.
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Marking out the fences for the tool
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Cutting the parts
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Drilled, tapped,assembled to slider blocks and lapped flat
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Wallop….
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Underside
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knoba – Adjustable Dowel Jig – 2015.dxf (link below)
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knoba – Adjustable Dowel Jig – 2015.dxf
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View of the CAD file & assembled materials (brass, medium carbon steel & acrylic)…
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All machined to stated dimensions.
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Loupes’ internal bore has been reamed.
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Polished rings at ends and grained through body for finish & finger grip.
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Recess for rubber ‘o-ring’ to stop the loupe slipping out of position.
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Centre punch is being soaked (the punch is at the front & the bits at the back are for another project).
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Punch is going to be quenched in old engine oil.
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View through loupes’ optic.
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CAD drawing below is for another project and the reason I wanted to make this tool.
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O-ring fitted and held in place with epoxy glue.
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Tool needs a case to protect the optic and keep the tool together.
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Looking forward to using it for the next project…
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Cross-hairs were scored on the lathe and highlighted with a blue sharpie pen.
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knoba – Optical Centre Punch – 2015.dxf (link below)
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knoba – Optical Centre Punch – 2015.dxf (updated)
With thanks to “PJ’s” at PJ’s – Home
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In stainless steel & brass, with beeswax finished silver birch handle…
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Tool is used for making a style line or stitching line…
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knoba – Leather Edge Creaser – 2015.dxf (link below)
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knoba – Leather Edge Creaser – 2015.dxf
The wood database – Silver Birch
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All CAD files are in dxf format, are free to download, use & are virus free. All links are genuine. I do not keep logs on anyone or anything. Make stuff…
knoba@debian:~$ mogrify -resize 600 *.JPG
knoba@debian:~$ ls -R > Lectures.txt
knoba@debian:~$ kill 20721
knoba@debian:~$ uname -a
knoba@debian:~$ for f in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -ab 192k "${f/%mp4/mp3}"; done
knoba@debian:~$ file bioelectromagneticweapons2.pdf
knoba@debian:~$ dmesg
knoba@debian:~$ wine Run.exe
knoba@debian:~$ xkill
knoba@debian:~$ unrar -e 0872598799RFDesignEx.rar
knoba@debian:~$ xscreensaver-demo
knoba@debian:~$ man wget
knoba@debian:~$ for f in *.rar;do unrar e $f;done
knoba@debian:~$ find -name *.bmp
knoba@debian:~$ apropos circuit
knoba@debian:~$ mount /media/usb1
knoba@debian:~$ top
knoba@debian:~$ cat ~/.get_iplayer/options
knoba@debian:~$ wget -r -A .pdf -l 3 http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm root@debian:~$ apt-get update && apt-get upgrade-dist
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Debian – The universal operating system
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