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Steel mandrels for turning cork
Posted by: Calvin Mah (---.cg.shawcable.net)
Date: May 25, 2008 08:10PM

Any sources of where i can get these? Suppliers in Canada?

Calvin

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Re: Steel mandrels for turning cork
Posted by: Michael Blomme (---.spkn.qwest.net)
Date: May 25, 2008 08:14PM

Calvin,
Lamar Fishing, one of the sponsors makes them. You can also buy drill stock and ask machine shop to cut and thread the irst inch of it. I have done this for sizes that Lamar Fishing did not carry. I hope this helps.

Mike Blomme

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Re: Steel mandrels for turning cork
Posted by: Mike Barkley (---.try.wideopenwest.com)
Date: May 25, 2008 08:14PM

Lamar doesn't sell direct but Fishsticks4U on the left carries their mandrels and will ship to Canada, I believe

Mike (Southgate, MI)
If I don't want to, I don't have to and nobody can make me (except my wife) cuz I'm RETIRED!!



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/25/2008 08:15PM by Mike Barkley.

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Re: Steel mandrels for turning cork
Posted by: Calvin Mah (---.cg.shawcable.net)
Date: May 25, 2008 08:17PM

If you buy stock what do you use to hold it in the lathe?

Do you run it with the tapered stock on one end and secure it with a chuck or jacobs on the other?

If so, does it matter what kind of taper you put on the stock?

Calvin

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Re: Steel mandrels for turning cork
Posted by: J.B. Hunt (---.dsl.logantele.com)
Date: May 25, 2008 09:00PM

Calvin;
You don't need the stock tapered. None of the mandrills you buy are tapered. All the cork rings and prefinished grips have a straight hole through them.
Thread one end about an inch or so as Michael said, chuck the other end in a Jacobs Chuck. You will want the machine shop to center drill the threaded end for your live center tail stock. You will also need a set collar on the mandrill as a stop for the cork, put a nut and washer on the threaded end against the cork to hold it tight enough to shape as it turns.

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Re: Steel mandrels for turning cork
Posted by: Ron Petley (---.hsc.mb.ca)
Date: May 25, 2008 09:59PM

Calvin:
You can buy any size of drill rod from Fastenall in Canada, if you want to make your own.
Cheers Ron.

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Re: Steel mandrels for turning cork
Posted by: Richard Hahn (---.hsd1.md.comcast.net)
Date: May 25, 2008 10:27PM

Fishsticks4u for Lamar Mandrills all the way !!!!!

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Re: Steel mandrels for turning cork
Posted by: Mike Barkley (---.try.wideopenwest.com)
Date: May 25, 2008 10:28PM

This is what you want [www.rodbuilding.org] You can buy or make them. There is a small piece of copper/brass tube between the stock and nut or mandrel that allows you to turn or sand/shape the ends of the grips. The left end of the mandrel is in a chuck and the right end has a 60 degree cone in the end for a live center to fit in to.

Mike (Southgate, MI)
If I don't want to, I don't have to and nobody can make me (except my wife) cuz I'm RETIRED!!

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Re: Steel mandrels for turning cork
Posted by: Ross Eedy (---.bchsia.telus.net)
Date: May 25, 2008 10:35PM

Calvin. I picked up mine from Reaction, which is Lamars canadian dist.

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