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I started a project a while back. I cut a large (to me) aluminum ring to make a steady rest. I was going to do simple fingers, but then started thinking about doing a little more complicated finger. Then I remembered Mark Frazer's steady rest fingers. I printed them out, and went about making them. My ring was 1" thick, and I thought his 7/8 would be tight, but it would work... wishful thinking... I made only 1 of the fingers less the final finger, I wanted to see how it looked... well, it's everything I feared it would be... too big.. I reasoned I can turn it down, but then the wall thickness would be small.
I shouldn't have winged it. Should have spent more time before I even cut the ring deciding on things. Now I'll have to redo the fingers, downsize them. They are really big, and would fit a bigger lathe well. I'll look at 3/4" see if that will scale a little better.
Enough of me rambling on..
time to figure out what screws I will use to replace and see if it will scale.. probably a better idea at this point to make a sleeve first, not the outer nut.
I shouldn't have winged it. Should have spent more time before I even cut the ring deciding on things. Now I'll have to redo the fingers, downsize them. They are really big, and would fit a bigger lathe well. I'll look at 3/4" see if that will scale a little better.
Enough of me rambling on..
time to figure out what screws I will use to replace and see if it will scale.. probably a better idea at this point to make a sleeve first, not the outer nut.