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Take a cardboard box, open on one end, wrap it with plastic wrap (the food wrap kind) including the open end. Purge the atmosphere from it with xenon gas. Attach a small explosive to the side opposite the open end. Detonate at will. These things can be sized to provide flashes with enough power to do real damage.

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Back on topic, Sorry!

couldn't you mill a knob out of aluminuim (aluminum) or anything else just on a lathe? It doesn't have to match the original perfectly except for outer diameter, overall length and inner spindle diameter and even the it just has to be big enough to get a rubber grommit in to hold the shaft.

interested anyone?

If it were aluminium, you could have it anodised. Imagine, a black knob. I'll leave it there.

Murray 06000047
I don't think, therefore I am not.

couldn't you mill a knob out of aluminuim (aluminum) or anything else just on a lathe?

I thought about that but then looked at the detail of the knob. It is so small and the inside of the knob does have relief work in it that using a lathe and chisel could be a major pain in the booty. Casting seemed a better aternative to me because the mold would be a duplicate copy of a knob I know works already, pouring metal is much easier than lathing metal, and I don't have a lathe or chisels for metal work. You probably could make wooden knobs on a lathe easily. But that again, this is all new teritory for me.

But you could just have a plain shape, if you wanted. Work on details later just a wheel with decent weight would be neat.
To each their own

Murray 06000047
I don't think, therefore I am not.

Once I buy a MkII (which is as soon as the empeg shop opens...) I'll make a try at making a wheel
in aluminum or stainless steel at my little lathe (Hobbymat) For better grip one would probably
want some sort of pattern... with a mill and a dividing plate it'd be easy, but as I don't have those...
But a friend works in a shop with a couple of CNC grinders. They're mainly for grinding circle
saw blades, but at least one can do really fancy stuff,

/Michael

I may have a go at making a knob on my lathe as well, since several people seem to want them. I could do it in A4 stainless, aerospace grade aluminum, or admiralty-spec nickel aluminum bronze, with the materials at hand. (amazine what people dump in scrapyards nowadays). I might be able to make it out of titanium, if a friend comes through with the promised offcuts.

(The above was of course supposed to be 'amazing'. Obviously, amazine is in fact the material you make something amazing out of.)

A titanium knob. Rob WOULD be pleased

For better grip one would probably want some sort of pattern...

I could always knurl it. I like knurling. And no, it's not the game played in northern countries.

Patrick.


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Edited by pca on 06/07/01 11:12 PM.

Count me in the wants-a-set list for either one of the materials. Though titanium must be a favorite for me too

Cheers,
Hans


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I would totally pay for any of these materials for buttons and the knob... and titanium would be just... creamy ^^ Now if only we could get an alumium or titanium fasica :)

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