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Samstag:
--- Quote from: RandyT on May 11, 2005, 08:38:18 am ---BTW, if anyone has a set of calipers and a WICO shaft, please measure it and post the dimensions.
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RandyT:
--- Quote from: Samstag on May 11, 2005, 09:52:20 am ---I've got three NOS 4-ways that measure .371, .371, and .372. All bought at the same time from Nicade on Ebay.
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Excellent. Just what I was looking for. Thank You,
Here's an update:
They can be drilled out, but I would be surprised if someone were able to do it properly with just their home drill press.
I just destroyed 2 of them. Once the wall gets too thin, all of the heat created from the drilling transfers right to the thermoset rubber and guess what happens when the rubber gets hot :P
Anyway, I haven't given up, but it'll take a little more experimentation. I have an idea, but I'll need to make a special jig on the CNC and that will take a little time.
RandyT
PoDunkMoFo:
OK All,
Just talked to an application engineer at Lord.
As feared and speculated by randy the hole diams' we are looking for are not
available. So either it was a custom order part or they are just not made anymore.
I gave the part number to the guy I talked to and he is going to check with some of the guys that have been there awhile and see what he comes up with.
Randy,
How bout if shafts were made, or sleeves for existing shafts, to fit those stock hole sizes. Kinda like a rebuilt kit including handle. Just a thought I know in the end costs must be justified and demand must exist before there can be supply.
Or maybe the machining the whole to match is the best solution.
I will keep everyone posted if I hear anything more.
Avery:
--- Quote from: RandyT on May 11, 2005, 10:04:09 am ---They can be drilled out, but I would be surprised if someone were able to do it properly with just their home drill press.
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RandyT:
--- Quote from: Avery on May 17, 2005, 03:51:09 pm ---If you can find a piece of thin steel tubing of about the right diameter (I've seen this kind of stuff at model train and art supply places) try putting a knife edge on one end and use it like a tube drill. That's, more or less, how rubber stoppers are drilled.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but we need to go through steel encapsulated in the rubber, not just the rubber part.
RandyT
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