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Old 08-20-2010, 05:22 AM
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The wheel construction brings together several techniques that you have mentioned elsewhere and confirms the idea that I have long held (but never acted on) that thin-diameter bolts are useful as mandrels for aligning and turning wheels.
Yep. Those in the picture are 1 inch long 4-40 bolts, that come in packs of eight with their respective nuts. I had to buy a pack from Home Despot specially for this task as I had nothing smaller that was long enough to double as a shaft. They should fit a 1/8" Dremel tool collet just fine.

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Sometimes good resolutions seem embarressingly obvious when you see them ......
Ain't it the truth!

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