Ideas for making a homemade dustwasher

[Stormrider]

I needed a dustwasher for my Suzo 500. Standard dustwashers are way too big (5,3 cm) and the hole is also big: 1,6 cm. I needed 4 cm and a hole of 1,4 cm or 1,5. So, I decided to make my own dustcover. I started looking at different materials: 2 mm pvc, lexan, glasspack, etc. Finally I had too ideas: using plastic from a CD archiver, which also has the textured finish and using a CD, which to my surprise has a hole of the exact dimensions. Here they are. Cutting the CD was pretty easy and clean. I used the same tool that we all have to cutting the holes in the MDF for the buttons, etc. I had to sand, of course for a perfect finish. The plastic was a little more rugged, and I had to increase the hole from 1 cm to 1,4 cm, since the drill I had was of that measures. After some hours of sanding, the result is this. Centering the hole of the black dustwasher was easy, because I had the one from the CD which already has a perfectly centered hole, so I just had to put both pieces together and sand in the right places. The piece made from the CD could be covered with vinyl or painted. Anyway, I think I'll use the black one.

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