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just a little tool me and my ten yr old boy made for threading spokes for bike project.
already had threading head from when i used to build bikes used it in lathe but as everything in storage due to things been through in last couple of years needed to find way to do them.
we had couple of old bikes we were cutting up to make a tadpole trike and my boy was idly spinning a crank rd and i could his brain working ( very easy to see with his autism as he zones out).
next thing he runs in house and gets threading head to hold against other side of crank.
pic is what he came up with.
basically an old crank, bottom bracket, crank arm, center from stripped out pedal and filed down arm bolt.
going to make die holder for small dies next.
apart from threading head total cost £0 as all from scrap pile.
already had threading head from when i used to build bikes used it in lathe but as everything in storage due to things been through in last couple of years needed to find way to do them.
we had couple of old bikes we were cutting up to make a tadpole trike and my boy was idly spinning a crank rd and i could his brain working ( very easy to see with his autism as he zones out).
next thing he runs in house and gets threading head to hold against other side of crank.
pic is what he came up with.
basically an old crank, bottom bracket, crank arm, center from stripped out pedal and filed down arm bolt.
going to make die holder for small dies next.
apart from threading head total cost £0 as all from scrap pile.