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

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

That's purdy, Pete.

--Winston

Thanks Pete - that looks handy!

Martin

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

On Aug 4, 2:20*pm, 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/Gask...etCutter02.JPG

Pete Keillor

Makin' the tools that fix the tools... thanks for the moment of non-
suck.


Dave

XR650L_Dave wrote:
On Aug 4, 2:20 pm, 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/Gask...etCutter02.JPG

Pete Keillor

Makin' the tools that fix the tools... thanks for the moment of non-
suck.

Ramen, brother.

--Winston

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

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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"Pete Keillor" wrote in message
...
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

Nice looking tool. I am curious about something however, why did you choose
such a large chunk of iron to hold such a small blade? And would not a
tapered center point be much easier to spot correctly?

--

Roger Shoaf

About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.

On 2009-08-08, Roger Shoaf wrote:

"Pete Keillor" wrote in message
...
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

Nice looking tool. I am curious about something however, why did you choose
such a large chunk of iron to hold such a small blade?

My guess is that it prevents tipping of the blade carrier and
digging in.

And would not a
tapered center point be much easier to spot correctly?

I think that a small part of it is tapered, but again you are
benefiting from the large surface area of the holder preventing tipping
and gouging of the gasket material.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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On 8 Aug 2009 05:11:45 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

On 2009-08-08, Roger Shoaf wrote:

"Pete Keillor" wrote in message
...
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

Nice looking tool. I am curious about something however, why did you choose
such a large chunk of iron to hold such a small blade?

My guess is that it prevents tipping of the blade carrier and
digging in.

And would not a
tapered center point be much easier to spot correctly?

I think that a small part of it is tapered, but again you are
benefiting from the large surface area of the holder preventing tipping
and gouging of the gasket material.

Enjoy,
DoN.

That was my reasoning, DoN, which worked well in practice. To Roger's
point, I did find that on the second cut, relocating the center was a
pain. However, it was easily solved in about 1 second by picking up
the cut disc, setting it on the pivot with the cutter held upside
down, then flipping the whole thing back over on the cutting mat.

Other than the blade pin, the only other thing I might do is cut the
rod down to a reasonable length. 8" would probably be plenty for
anything I might encounter.

Pete Keillor

On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:20:47 -0400, 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


Oooo! Very nice. Print it and email me the drawings so I can build one
too!! Pretty Pretty Please!!!!

Gunner, Hardinge specialist.

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