On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:24:10 GMT, the infamous Jerry Wass
scrawled the following:

Pete Keillor wrote:
I made this little cutter to make the spindle gasket for my Hardinge
TM, which is finally going back together. It uses No. 11 X-acto
blades. I may add a dowel for the slot in the blade, but maybe not.
It worked fine on a cutter mat. The pivot is a hand ground point on a
set screw locked by a second set screw.

http://metalworking.com/dropbox/GasketCutter.txt
http://metalworking.com/dropbox/GasketCutter01.JPG
http://metalworking.com/dropbox/GasketCutter02.JPG

Pete Keillor

WHAT?? No vernier adjustment on the blade protrusion ?? tsk tsk G

He'd likely have put on a micrometer action if he didn't use a micron
visual comparator. G

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