Head Spinner Use

WinDancer

WinDancer

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My new head spinner came today. After 20 minutes in the shop, I have not a clue how it is supposed to be used. Can someone give me enought instruction to get started? THANKS!

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Do not mistake the edge of a rut for the horizon

OKAY... let's see if I have this right-

I round off one end of a piece of rivet material, then place it through the scale and liner, and cut it about 3/16 longer than an exact flush fit?

I then put the head spinner in a drill press or hand drill? And then turn on the drill, being careful to use a slow speed and not press down too hard. How hard is too hard? How hard is hard enough?

What am I trying to do? Will the head spinner create a small cap on the end of the rivet material in place of peening? Since the head spinner covers the rivet, how do you tell when you are getting the result you are trying for?

If I put the newly created cap through the scale and through the liner with the finished cap on the side that will show, can I then use the head spinner from the liner side to do the other end, or must that end then be peened?

Thanks.....


WinDancer@OlyWa.net

www.olywa.net/windancer/webknives.htm



[This message has been edited by WinDancer (edited 06 September 1999).]
 
You'll have to do a few trial and errors to see how much pin to leave above the handle for the setting. Try about 3/16 of an inch and use the spinner with the drill speed set low once one side is done put the pin into it's respective position and with a back-plate of micarta works well. One thing to note is that if you use to much pressure you will bore into the handle material. I've found that using a counter bore and penning one side on a piece of bronze prior to pinning the handl;e works best for myself.
Hope that this is of some help.

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Curtis Wilson -
Wilson's Custom Knives, Engraving, and Scrimshaw
 
WinDancer,
I have two head spinners that work good... out of about 3 that I bought and about another dozen that I made!!!!! This is the way I got mine to work:
I took a hardened dowell pin the size of pins I wanted to spin, I polished a round dome on one end using the grinder then a scotchbite wheel. Then, using diamond lapping compound I re-finished the end of my head spinner!! After several tries I got my .094 Dia spinner to work OK!! On anything but stainless pins, I run the spinner pretty fast!
It's easy to make a head spinner if you have a lathe! I use drill rod, 1/4" dia. Then I put the radius in the end with a Ball End Mill.
I harden it "Full Hard" this way it will wear slower.
My .125 Dia spinner only seams to work with the diamond laping compound between the pin and the spinner. This wears the spinner out but I re-work it the same way I described above.
I realy dont use mine that often and everytime I do, some trial and error is involved!!!!
Good Luck!
 
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