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  1. J

    Modified steady rest - lumby BC

    Ye flat rate box would of been best thing so maybe after Christmas??? Or maybe keepondragon still willing to maybe ship via the company he works for if that is still on the table he can grab some quotes maybe corporate rates better then what the common pleb gets? I'm more then happy to drop off...
  2. J

    Modified steady rest - lumby BC

    Haha fair ye surprised anyone knows that town considering some people from lumby don't have a clue about it. Also package sizing is 11"x12"x2.5" and weight is 13.8lbs so I'm gonna see what I can find out. Haha ouch not shipping FedEx probly and I think UPS and Purolator want to join the...
  3. J

    Modified steady rest - lumby BC

    Tecnico got dibs on it atm just figuring out if there is reasonable means of shipping it that's not Canada Post. @Tom Kitta
  4. J

    Cool Tools in your home shop that you'd not likely not see in someone else's?

    Round ish doesn't have to be perfect but if too out of round it has tendancy to jump out of cups. I kinda just shape the rocks with tile cutter then rough a bit then remove any lumps with diamond zipcut then just check with calipers so make sure rock isn't turning into egg shape or something...
  5. J

    Cool Tools in your home shop that you'd not likely not see in someone else's?

    It's pretty fast build less then 6 hours I would guess and biggest part cost is the motors are around 100$ a piece. The other big cost is the cups. Depending on if you make em or buy them pre made. If I were to budget to build another one including buying premade cups and polishing pads I would...
  6. J

    Cool Tools in your home shop that you'd not likely not see in someone else's?

    I used diamond core drill segments and silver soldered then onto some cast iron cups for the roughing cups And for polishing I cut up some diamond resin pads for counter top resurfacing and glued them to more pipe fittings. I need to get the wife to 3d print a cup set I can glue velcro too so I...
  7. J

    Cool Tools in your home shop that you'd not likely not see in someone else's?

    Basically ye the cups do the cutting and the action of the rock to turning random patterns makes it round. If rock gets stuck or makes repeating patterns you get weird looking shapes. Ehhh just thought it would be neat and the wife is into lapidary so figured why not make one and screw around...
  8. J

    Cool Tools in your home shop that you'd not likely not see in someone else's?

    I have nothing too crazy got some of neat stuff I've found over the years. Tiny hammer for tiny trouble shooting. Same as my 13/64 wrench for those hard to reach nuts. I got this 6" shell mill that I'm gonna use on my mill when I find 2" 40 taper holder for it lol. Not sure if it counts but...
  9. J

    Modified steady rest - lumby BC

    Ye it is a PA tag lol and he hasn't pmed about wanting it so your basiclly first inline. Also corner has been milled off but should be ok still but may need some rework but easy enough to braze material on or even just drill and tap chunk back on
  10. J

    Modified steady rest - lumby BC

    About 5.25" ish
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