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Miniature Drive Center for the Lathe
Jan 31, 2012
I recently needed to turn some small pedestal feet for a jewelry box but didn’t have a drive center small enough to turn the 1⁄2-in. shank on the foot.
To get around this, I fashioned what I needed using a squaredrive bit and screw. Start by drilling a pilot hole in the end of the blank and driving in a 1-in.-long round-head square-drive screw. Chuck the square-drive bit in the headstock using either a three-jaw chuck or a Jacobs lathe drill chuck and insert the bit into the head of the screw to drive the workpiece.
Jim Richey
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