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Stainless belt guards for my mill

John Conroy

member
Premium Member
Just a quick little project. The original plastic belt guards for my mill were both broken. New ones are available but for $27 USD each!! I cut some new ones from some stainless steel sheet material and used a 3M Roloc disc mounted in a drill chuck to make evenly spaced swirly patterns. Then I drilled some evenly spaced holes to match the openings in the head of the machine.

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Now that I have this machine mechanically sound the next thing on my to-do list is to disassemble and re-paint it.
 

EricB

Active Member
"Swirly patterns" haha looks great! I think that pattern is called "engine turned" but I could be wrong.

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Edit: what color scheme are you going with? Classic machine grey/green or are you going to get creative?
 

John Conroy

member
Premium Member
Thanks Eric, I knew there was a name for the swirly's but could not think of it. I'm probably going to stick with classic grey but I'm not 100% sure what colour yet.
 

Jwest7788

Joshua West
Administrator
I could giving it a fresh coat of the current blue grey look too. Fresh paint always looks great.

The swirlys look fantastic!

JW
 
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