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Happy New year all!
I have been working on engraving with my CNC and as you are never too old to learn, I found out about spring loaded engraving tools. The surface on last part that I engraved was not as flat as I would have liked ( out about .005” ) so the lines varied in width. That's when I did some research and found out about spring load tools. I've only been machining parts for 50 years, you'd think I would have known!
Being the cheap old goat that I am, I decided to make my own. I am quit happy with how it turned out. I found a spring in one of my “Lucky Drawers” and it turned out to be about the right pressure!
The steering wheel is for my son's Triumph GT6 Vintage race car. Many Triumph racers are familiar with a gentleman names Kas Kasner, he ran Triumph North American racing program back in the 1960's. He is honored each year with the annual “Kastner Cup” race held at a different each year. Many Vintage Triumph race cars have been autographed with Kas's tag line “Ok to race Kas Kasner”. I manually digitized a photo of the autograph that he put on the dashboard of the Triumph TR6 that we campaign in the upper midwest. Then engraved it in the center piece of the steering wheel, that will have to do until Kas can autograph my son's car at this years race!
Thanks
Richard
I have been working on engraving with my CNC and as you are never too old to learn, I found out about spring loaded engraving tools. The surface on last part that I engraved was not as flat as I would have liked ( out about .005” ) so the lines varied in width. That's when I did some research and found out about spring load tools. I've only been machining parts for 50 years, you'd think I would have known!
Being the cheap old goat that I am, I decided to make my own. I am quit happy with how it turned out. I found a spring in one of my “Lucky Drawers” and it turned out to be about the right pressure!
The steering wheel is for my son's Triumph GT6 Vintage race car. Many Triumph racers are familiar with a gentleman names Kas Kasner, he ran Triumph North American racing program back in the 1960's. He is honored each year with the annual “Kastner Cup” race held at a different each year. Many Vintage Triumph race cars have been autographed with Kas's tag line “Ok to race Kas Kasner”. I manually digitized a photo of the autograph that he put on the dashboard of the Triumph TR6 that we campaign in the upper midwest. Then engraved it in the center piece of the steering wheel, that will have to do until Kas can autograph my son's car at this years race!
Thanks
Richard
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