Or how about an offset overarm that allows the handle to stay on the file Bill? Despite its apparent simplicity, I suspect any of us could spend the rest of our lives tinkering with a filing machine � one that dispenses with the slide by using Watt抯 linkage (like a beam engine) would be dangerously hypnotic. Then we could use his sun and planet instead of a crank to halve the speed...
Brian
Gillingham (Kent) UK
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From: Bill Williams BWMSBLDR1@... [UNIMAT]<mailto:UNIMAT@...>
Sent: 13 March 2019 15:55
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Subject: Re: [UNIMAT] RE: Unimat SL - fret saw attachment
Brian, just as an idle thought; has anyone built a filing machine that has an overhead drive? That would allow holding the file by the tang and cutting on the downstroke! Bill in Boulder CO USA
On 3/13/19 3:00 AM, Brian Gates briangates@...<mailto:briangates@...> [UNIMAT] wrote:
From what I have been able to find out machine files are almost impossible to find in the UK, but the Westbury design can use ordinary files at low speeds as well as almost any blades you can make adaptors for. This video shows one in use as well as the holders for conventional files. <> . I抦 not sure I like the look of the large central hole any more than the hole in the table of my fretsaw (into which it tries to pull thin materials), but it does mean that files can be inserted tang-up so that they cut on the down stroke.
All the best
Brian Gates
Gillingham (Kent) UK
Posted by: Bill Williams <bwmsbldr1@...>
