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With the concentric grooves, they are essentially grinding tools- though if you give them a good scrub to get rid of grit particles, you can pour pitch on them for polishing.
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There are basically, only 2 ways to use them- TOT, or TOB.
I used to use a female tapered pin socket with a 1"-8 female thread adapter for use on Strassie polishers. Literally dozens of ways to adapt them for either spindle or quill use. The only limits would be skill or imagination.
Mark

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Right..TOT or TOB..... I shoulda thought of that.. By Quill you mean the *Poker pins* that extend down to the tool from the over arm right?

Well..I think I'm going to enlarge the quill(Poker pin) ball recess on the taper pin of both of these tools so I can use them as a grinding and a polishing tool.

The original spindles on this machine were taper pins(I don't like those kind)...that is why they are threaded now with flanges.

I just finished building a 13" table for the second drum and now I can get Droids 12.5" mirror going too.

Fun fun fun.

Rob

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