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Offline snub

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Another Ball Turner...With An Added Feature
« on: November 11, 2017, 09:19:21 PM »
I motorized it.

The height of the handle was causing pain in my old arm and shoulder, so I put a motor on it. It's a 15 RPM 12 Volt gear reduction motor hooked up to PWM so I can slow it right down and get some nice finishing passes on the workpeace.

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Re: Another Ball Turner...With An Added Feature
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2017, 09:23:04 PM »
The exciting video:









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Re: Another Ball Turner...With An Added Feature
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2017, 01:15:17 AM »
:-) Good stuff!

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Re: Another Ball Turner...With An Added Feature
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2017, 12:16:09 PM »
Nice, but I would want something to protect the belt from swarf.
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