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Good Morning:

Has anyone ever tried to repair their dinged, buggered and otherwise banged up ecentric with aluminium repair rods that you see at fles markets from time to time?? The ones that you can use a regular propane toarch to heat and melt the stuff.

I was thinking of this product:

http://www.aluminumrepair.com/video/newweb.html

Both of my ecentrics have scarring that is so bad that it is difficult to get either to seat flat and square to the quil. Kind of hard to get a hole dead center in a pen blank if the bit at the tail can't be set-up properly.

To answer your question, no I have not tried to fix my tail stock eccentric.

Regarding those Aluminum repair rods, I have never been successful with them using a Propane torch. I find that I need at least a MAPP gas torch to get good results with those rods.

You could try some JBWeld epoxy to build up the damaged area and then smooth things up with a file/rasp.

I used the JB weld build up file down method on one of my eccentric, it did the job nicely. (So Far)

I also drilled and tapped the tail stock for a second set screw, and that helps to stabilize things.

JB Weld = Me too! (3x)

Jury still out re durability.