3 and 4mm drills have been the standard size drills for light pulls at least for the 20 odd years that I have been tuning and teaching turning but there are and always will be some that use different sizes but who is right and who is wrong no one we all do our own thing happy turningmyturn":3evebl9j said:4mm is not big enough for a knot, I make mine with a 4mm hole through and 8 to 10mm for the knot depending on the size of the light pull.
How big's a piece of string?woodyturner":3py1n7gb said:3 and 4mm drills have been the standard size drills for light pulls at least for the 20 odd years that I have been tuning and teaching turning but there are and always will be some that use different sizes but who is right and who is wrong no one we all do our own thing happy turningmyturn":3py1n7gb said:4mm is not big enough for a knot, I make mine with a 4mm hole through and 8 to 10mm for the knot depending on the size of the light pull.
Peter59":1usy39y6 said:do you think I could turn your light pull holder out of a bit of decent hardwood? I'm guessing its a stepped cylinder on a 2 MT shaft? Never seen one.
Peter
Jonzjob":8jiu21z3 said:As a matter of interest and I have said this before, when I'm spindle turning and have an MT drive in the headstock, I have the drive spindle thread protector fitted. That's so when I need to remove the MT drive I hold the shaft with the supplied spanner and unscrew the thread protector to push and release the MT. If you had a hardwood MT drive you would need to make very sure you hadve a good strong shoulder to push against?
Jonzjob":1ctj4iil said:Axy don't seem to do Ian's jobbie now, but the Axy one is almost the same. It has a couple more steps which could be quite handy.
If you lash out on the Axy one then it will last a lifetime. Even with the hardest hardwood it would need replacing after a while? I've had mine better part of 15 years now..
As a matter of interest and I have said this before, when I'm spindle turning and have an MT drive in the headstock, I have the drive spindle thread protector fitted. That's so when I need to remove the MT drive I hold the shaft with the supplied spanner and unscrew the thread protector to push and release the MT. If you had a hardwood MT drive you would need to make very sure you hadve a good strong shoulder to push against?
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