"whit3rd" wrote in message
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On Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 4:39:48 PM UTC-8, Bob La Londe wrote:
"Ed Huntress" wrote in message

See if you can get a small piece of Macor, a machineable glass
ceramic.

Wow! The stuff sure is expensive.

Yeah; soapstone, slate, pyrophyllite, and other natural products are also
machinable, and cheap as rocks.

I'd go with glass, even if I had to visit the crafts store and buy a sixpack
of round
mirrors and desilver 'em in lye. Or take a diamond blade to a Tabasco
bottle.

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Part of the concept is to be able to make the parts uniform thickness. Even
the insulating sleeve. I'm going to give phenolic a try. The stuff is
pretty stable, and I use it already for other things like handles on lead
casting molds.