"John Doe" wrote in message
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I have some hand tools, but no significant shop tools.


I had no proper metalworking machines as a kid, but we did have an old
cast-iron Shopsmith which turned out to be very useful for making
pre-industrial-type machine parts from wood, plastic and aluminum. It
could be set up as a horizontal boring machine to drill frames for
shafts, like this problem.

jsw