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Specialty lathe
I want to build a specialty lathe to work on pool cues. Rather than having
a chuck and tailpiece, I want to use some ball bearing wheel trucks that go on the bottom of sliding glass doors. They have neoprene wheels, and the spacing is perfect. There would be two of them to support the work, and then in the middle, there would be a sewing machine motor with O ring type drive pulley bearing down and holding it on the wheels. This would be to sand, and with another device, trim off old tips and leave a perpendicular cut. It would look basically like a six foot long box, about a foot square, with a rod along the front side where the last board is omitted. The rod would be superoverkill 3/4" cold rolled steel, making it essentially a very strong straight support to rest any tool on. Since pool shafts are tapered, how would I get them to go in there so that they would be precise? The trucks would have machine screws into steel bases to fine adjust up and down, and be drilled on the 90 for perfect vertical. I need a measuring device to check the cue's proper positioning sometimes. I'm thinking of a long piece of oak or hardwood that is cut on a precise taper that can be laid on top of the cue, and the taper would make the top of the measurement tool exactly level. I do have one of those pendulum degree finder things that would help in measuring. Is there a device that is adjustable for setting these long slim wedge shaped cut out lines, or maybe just have a pivot point, and a level so I could get it pretty close? Steve |
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