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Jonny wrote:

I'm now thinking more on the lines of this cheap generic one - it buzzes like a cheap Dremel clone at peak revs, but it costs a quarter what the Proxxon does

This may be a good option JR ? Surely you already have a drill

andyaus wrote:

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You already have a tail stock which you add the chuck to, How about picking up a tail stock quill to support you material ?
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Thank Andy, but I did think about that - I already have centres for it (including a live one) - the problem is there's nowhere for it to fit on the on the workpiece as at that point the 7mm counterbore has already been cut.

An alternative cutting order to use a tailstock centre would mean leaving the counterbore until last - but then I'd have to grip the piece in the chuck part way up the 8mm OD, leaving part of that, all of the taper & all the 12mm OD out in the breeze, unsupported.

andyaus wrote:

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This may be a good option JR ? Surely you already have a drill
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I did look at those & initially discounted them as looking a bit flimsy - and a lack of stiffness in machine tools is a bad thing, just as it is elsewhere.

Overnight though I've been thinking about the probable lack of torque from my "preferred" mini drill press, so one of those might be a better option.

Finished one last night. I don't have a lathe. So everything is done by hand and a drill. It took awhile but is done and I am please with it..

yellowcat wrote:

Finished one last night. I don't have a lathe. So everything is done by hand and a drill. It takes awhile but is done and I am please with it..

That looks really good

Wow that looks Awesome.

Mounted the post on my custom Ford.and it looks great.

It is very shiny. Alloy complexe cars are always beautyfull

Well done, Yellowcat. It looks the business!