center pin reamers, homemade

Warren Fisher fish@COMMUNIQUE.NET
Wed, 07 May 1997 14:00:11 -0700


Horace Greeley wrote:
>
> Warren, Richard, et al,
>
> Susan and I were working on several projects together around the time she
> put that piece in the Jounal.
>
> Her method did not spring full-blown from her fertile imagination.  Many
> burned-to-a-crisp tiny pieces of bushing cloth littered the shop whilst the
> technique  was developed.
>
> Rather than a dremel tool, I use the slow-speed setting on my cordless
> Milwaukee drill (the small kind, like the Panasonic, surprise - it's made
> by Panasonic).  The reason is that the mass of the cordless helps me to
> provide a more stable platform for the workpiece, and, as an added benefit,
> does not spin the burnisher so fast as to burn the felt.
>

Horace,

I have a foot speed control for the dremel, and use it just barely on.
I don't think I'm making toast, but I'll have to pop a few bushing out
to see. My partner has the little cordless model,  but I don't know if
he uses it for that or not.  I know it runs a lot slower.

Warren

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