On Sunday arvo I was doing a bit of cleaning up in the shed. Eventually I found some wooden gear knobs that my Dad made back in the 1990's They were basically turning practice for him on his wood lathe (although he did make me a really nice one which I fitted to the car I was rebuilding at the time) so they are all different to each other.
As there is a little bit of sentimental value there, I decided to fit them to the mill to "bling" it up a bit. So I fitted them to the motor clamp nut levers and the spindle feed lever. Looks pretty good and a lot more comfortable than the old round knobs. I had to machine up a couple of threaded brass inserts which I epoxied into the knobs
I also remembered I had a couple more and it turned out they screwed straight onto the spindle brake lever and the pulley dog clutch lever . They look a bit out of proportion but fit the hand nice.
The wood was from some really old, long dead Mulga, that Dad picked up in mid western NSW somewhere. I think past a place called "Woop Woop" lol
I still have to make a plug of some type for the knob on the brake lever.
Peter


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