On Monday, April 7th, 2025 at 13:05, Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> although time consuming, and requiring som moderate machining skill, that > looks like it shouldn't be an extreme problem to make a blank. > I assume that Tony has, or has access to, a precision milling machine. It might not even need an automill. At the very least for the purposes of prototyping, it should be possible to carve some of the wards by hand with a Dremel. I've done that for a couple of mechanisms I've restored over the years, and if you don't mind taking two or three tries to get one that fits right it's doable. > The rear picture shows that it is not a fully paracentric keyway. (where > "ridges" and "valleys" of the milling of the keyway would cross the center > line, making it impossible to insert a very thin flat piece of metal) Ooh - good catch! That's a really good point. The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510] WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ Get thee down. Be thou funky.
