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hey dusty good to know you a still around. Yes I have done that, very sluggish, no auto return. hearing a click, I am thinking the spring is broke, so looking further I am wondering if something is wrong with my quill spring as in a previous post... here is the pix there. quill spring.jpg can I take...

So my quill wouldn't go up or down unless I muscled it. knowing that wasn't right, I tried cleaning to no avail. I tried tensioning the quill. still no luck. So where I am at is. The quill will go up and down only with me working the handle. It feels like it's stuck, it that hard to manually move qu...

they look nice, I know what you mean by "nice to get these out of the shop and finished"

some projects just see to drag on

not much else to do

knew I had the plans, wasn't satisficed till I found them.

did 4 out of oak.

good chance I brought them from Meisel. yea that's the width. the ones I have didn't match up to the pattern I found. I had to reconfigure the pattern. I just made some using oak. I usually like a wood with a nice pattern, but usually don't have fancy wood. I bet zebra wood would look nice. John

I have one on my dash of my Honda element for the past 17 years stuck on with double stick tape, I use it for notes to remind me to do things they are rather cool, people like them when given as a gift. I always put a strip of double stick tape on them when I give away. easy to make. spring, couldn'...

I did find some measurements, and a pix on line.
the top image was the size I wanted, the bottom image has all the measurements

years ago I brought large clothespin springs.
still have a couple, but I can find the template anymore.,
searched all through my files, but nothing.
Anybody got the plans they want to share?

thanks in advance