Having a drill-press is a game-changer. If you cant find exactly what you need on Ebay, you can reduce the diameter of what you do find by clamping it in the chuck of the drillpress, and use a file to grind-off the outer material. Fine sandpaper will put a nice finish on it. If the stock already has a hole thru the axis, it's easy to enlarge it by drilling into it. I use vise-grips to hold it.
Cutting it square into short lengths will be tricky, but if you have a rotary tool (ie Dremel, etc), it's pretty easy. If you dont have a rotary tool yet, I suggest you buy one with the money you save by not going to a machine shop; you will find many uses for it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/e57864d8-cd80-418c-addb-596fc74f0399%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
