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do you know where this is from, I recognize it but can’t place it, the guy has a website right?
This was either from Home Shop Machinist or Practical Machinist, one of the big tooling threads, but I can’t say which.
BW
This comes from the frets.com website. http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/Projects/HandCrankGrinder/handcrankgrinder.html
Thank you John!
I try to give credit wherever I can, but had managed to lose the original source of this one. Frets is a great site with tons more projects on it.
Best,
BW