Drilling Paper with a ShopSmith
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2015 11:53 am
Earlier this year I ran across a reference to drilling paper using thin wall tubing in a drill press. (If I could remember where I would post a link. 
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Last month I found a pdf file for a Speed Selector Wheel on the ERdocuments forum.
So I made one, 
it would have been nicer if I had printed it in colour, but it still turned out great.
I used a sharpened pen tube to drill the holes, (and a short length of the same tube to rivet the wheel together). This worked very well, nice clean holes through the paper, poster board and foam core board that I used.
Here is a copy of the file for any 10ER fans that may be interested
Earlier this month I picked up an "new" toy, a used MIG welder. I printed the manual for it from a file I got online (64 pages) and again I drilled the holes using a pen tube, this time I took pictures.
This is how I sharpened the tube, the diamond hone was too slow so I changed to a file and that made short work of it.
And here it is in action.
)Last month I found a pdf file for a Speed Selector Wheel on the ERdocuments forum.
- SpeedSelectorWheelphoto.JPG (238.31 KiB) Viewed 1188 times
it would have been nicer if I had printed it in colour, but it still turned out great.I used a sharpened pen tube to drill the holes, (and a short length of the same tube to rivet the wheel together). This worked very well,
nice clean holes through the paper, poster board and foam core board that I used.Here is a copy of the file for any 10ER fans that may be interested
SpeedSelectorWheel.pdf- (782.76 KiB) Downloaded 647 times
This is how I sharpened the tube, the diamond hone was too slow so I changed to a file and that made short work of it.
- sharpentube.JPG (206.12 KiB) Viewed 1188 times
- drillingpaper.JPG (191.41 KiB) Viewed 1188 times