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Graphite arbors
Posted by: Rich Levy (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: March 10, 2005 06:23PM

What's the minimum wall thickness you'll turn a graphite arbor down to before you abandon it in favor of a tape arbor on a reel seat installation?

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Re: Graphite arbors
Posted by: Michael Sledden (---.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net)
Date: March 10, 2005 07:10PM

I have reamed them out to where there is hardly any of the material left.

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Re: Graphite arbors
Posted by: russ blanchard (---.ri.ri.cox.net)
Date: March 10, 2005 08:29PM

as thin as I have to, unless they split in the process.............................

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Re: Graphite arbors
Posted by: Rich Levy (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: March 10, 2005 09:06PM

Thanks, guys. I just wasn't sure how they'd hold up when they're thinned out.

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Re: Graphite arbors
Posted by: Randy Parpart (Putter) (---.nccray.com)
Date: March 10, 2005 09:10PM

They're fragile as they get on the thin side, but if careful, I can get them very thin, also.

Putter

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