Thursday, April 4, 2013

Spokes - part 5

Another cutter broke during the weekend. Very annoying and given the cost for a cutter, pushing the price for a spoke up with about 0.5 euro (as long as I don't break any more from now on!!!).
I spend the first hour in the workshop with making a new tool. As you might remember, I clamped the cutter in the chuck of the lathe and feeding the spoke manually. I found a way to turn this around for a much more stable way of cutting the spokes:


The thread is coming out cut perfectly symmetrical. So the stress on the cutter must be much more divided between cutting lips. I hope I will be able to cut the rest of the spokes for the small wheel without further problems...

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