"DoN. Nichols" wrote in message
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According to Lloyd E. Sponenburgh lloydspinsidemindspring.com:

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You guys got any good hints on what to do with it, besides sell it to you
or admire it as a dust-collector?

I use mine for small wood cutting (circular saw attachment), and
for small turning (with the WW collet spindle), including things like a
setup to crown heads of screws which I make for things which are no
longer offered.

You Unimat guys may be interested that an old buddy of mine, former Senior
Editor of American Machinist and a world-class, world-hopping model-glider
flyer named Bob Hatschek, used his Unimat for commercial production of a
neat little device called the "Hatschek Hook." It was a model glider towline
release hook, very fancy with adjustable springs and so on, smaller than a
quarter, that he made on the Unimat and sold through advertisements in the
model flying magazines. It was aluminum with some custom brass screws and so
on. He made a few bucks on them, selling and shipping them all over the
world.

He had a lot of special cutting tools he made for it from piano wire, which
he ground in the hard-drawn condition and used without heat treatment.

--
Ed Huntress