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What size hole is required? I have an Atkins #5 butcher’s saw punch that might work as well.

I once “narrowed” (okay, channeled for any car guys) a tape measure spring to use as a clock mainspring. I turned a circular recess into a block of maple (wood lathe, standard tools) the width of the coiled spring and to the final depth that I wanted to achieve. I then wound the spring into the...

Simple yet elegant.

Must be like one of the old-style cable drafting machines that uses a continuous loop to pull the one side as you push on the other. It will be interesting to see the guts.

This from the Atlas MOLO, doesn’t specify what constitutes ‘hard’ but it’s a start. Machinery’s Handbook may reference it as well and may have a durometer specification. -frank

I think this may sum things up quite nicely. Perhaps it is that we come to a time when we are ‘out of touch’ with a current trend. But I think it may have to happen that way for things to move forward. I for one know full well that I’ve dragged home my share of moth-eaten furniture carcasses or...

Yeah, there’s the rub. They’re not mine, I just facilitate in various degrees the implementation. The end product isn’t secret by any stretch but I am hesitant (perhaps overly so) to present the work outside of the official channels, as it were. Some things would be pretty recognizable and I...

Coincidentally that’s exactly what we used :D

Dang, I wish I could help you out but that stuff is just too big to throw in the back of my little Toyota and hang a tarp over it.

Nice fence. I have mixed feelings about powder coating. At first I thought it was the greatest thing but after discussions with a custom metalworker down here he’s turned me otherwise. I contracted him to build two extensive and very heavy decorative iron gates with elaborate forged and riveted...