Make your own bushings

[rickbw]

Can anyone point me in the direction of finding instruction on making your own bushings?

I have been away from penturning for about 1.5 years ad last night did a bunch of "straightening up" the workshop. I have alot of different kits (sierra, cigar, El Presdente, etc) but cannot find all the bushings. Is there a site which would show me the proper bushing size?

Thx,

Rick

 

[markgum]

hopefully this link will work to the documents in the library..

http://www.penturners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=297

 

[TomS]

Check out the Bushing & Tube reference located on the right side of the home page.
Tom

 

[randyrls]

Can anyone point me in the direction of finding instruction on making your own bushings?

Rick; I have started making my own metal between centers bushings because I wasn't satisfied with the stock bushings I was getting from PSI. With a metal lathe they are easy to make and you can make them to tighter specifications than the stock bushings.

I wonder if anyone has made bushings from Corian???

 

[AceMrFixIt]

I have used corian. If using a mandral, glue in a brass sleeve first. They tend to get smaller with sanding though.

 

[randyrls]

I have used corian. If using a mandral, glue in a brass sleeve first. They tend to get smaller with sanding though.

I usually make my bushings about .005" under size. This helps keep the sandpaper from hitting the bushing. I always use calipers set to the actual fitting size to set the finished size of the blank.

 

[rickbw]

Link

Thanks for all the replies - I should have started in the library. Here is exactly what I was looking for:

http://content.penturners.org/articles/2009/bushingsandtubes.pdf

 

[onewaywood]

Xxxx

What does all the "x" mean in that chart ??

 

[Smokey7385]

What does all the "x" mean in that chart ??

I think that it means that that particular item is not needed for that particular kit.