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Posted by Jerry Wass on August 5, 2009, 1:24 pm
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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>
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Posted by Larry Jaques on August 6, 2009, 9:33 am
Please log in for more thread options On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:24:10 GMT, the infamous Jerry Wass
>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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Posted by Roger Shoaf on August 7, 2009, 10:51 pm
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> 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?
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Roger Shoaf
About the time I had mastered getting the toothpaste back in the tube, then
they come up with this striped stuff.
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Posted by DoN. Nichols on August 8, 2009, 1:11 am
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>> 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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Posted by Pete Keillor on August 8, 2009, 7:11 am
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>>
>>> 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
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> 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