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Eli the Bearded Eli the Bearded is offline
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Default Hozan Rolling Die Head for Spoke Threader, $120+tax!

In rec.crafts.metalworking, John Doe wrote:
This is a video of their current version...

https://youtu.be/0EkmrTxJRsM

I'm impressed they make videos of supposedly precision products that
WOBBLE. That is not uncommon for Chinese products, it's like they don't
even care. But that's Japanese, not Chinese, so that's weird. McDonald's
would go through 50,000 hamburger patties to make one commercial.


I've got to wonder how much of that wobble is to accommodate a spoke not
being 100% straight. If the part being worked on is held steady relative
to the cutter, the rest of it can still be slightly wonky.

At 6 seconds, when the spoke is being tightened, you can see it's not
perfectly straight. So when the cutting starts, the wobble seems to
follow that.

Elijah
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has considered buying a spoke threader but doesn't need one that much