Joshua Dinerstein
04-09-2009, 4:23 PM
Ok. So the other day I was at the local big bin store. Here it is called NPS and it is just a warehouse full of junk. Steel and other components are sold for pennies a pound. I got 30+ 1 1/4" nuts for making face plates and things for my mustard lathe as well as about 20 1" nuts for the HF one.
I also go a set of wood chisels. The kind you hit with a hammer/mallet and clean up holes with. I needed a smaller one for some work I was doing. Well it had this really wide 1.25" one in the set that I don't figure I will ever need. I was looking at it last night and I thought to myself, hey I bet I could make scraper out of that!
But before I turned into a weapon of mass destruction I thought I would ask on here. I have seen a few comments about files being too brittle and not a good idea. So it got me to wondering if this really was something I wanted to try. So I thought I would ask here. Any one tried it? Anyone been successful? Anyone have a clear/good reason not to try it?
Anyway you guys have been so helpful in the past that after a few quick searches on here not turning up much I thought I would just ask.
Thanks!
Joshua
I also go a set of wood chisels. The kind you hit with a hammer/mallet and clean up holes with. I needed a smaller one for some work I was doing. Well it had this really wide 1.25" one in the set that I don't figure I will ever need. I was looking at it last night and I thought to myself, hey I bet I could make scraper out of that!
But before I turned into a weapon of mass destruction I thought I would ask on here. I have seen a few comments about files being too brittle and not a good idea. So it got me to wondering if this really was something I wanted to try. So I thought I would ask here. Any one tried it? Anyone been successful? Anyone have a clear/good reason not to try it?
Anyway you guys have been so helpful in the past that after a few quick searches on here not turning up much I thought I would just ask.
Thanks!
Joshua