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Progcraft · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 8:58 am Post subject: Homemade Compass and arc scriber

G'day.
So, I decided that I need a way to make bigger circles. Here's what I did.

Metel rulers have a hole in one end. This hole fits nicely over a 1/8" dowel. So, I drilled a hole in my table, near the edge but centered. The hole is just big enough for a 1/8" dowel. Now I can slip a dowel into the hole whenever I want and just hook my metal ruler over it.

Then, I took a plastic clothes hanger. The kind I have have a resivoir of sorts on the back side of the pad. This gave me an idea. I then pulled the pencil holder out of a the compass (from a school geometry kit).
I filled up the resivoir on the clothes hanger with 12 minute epoxy then balanced the pencil holder in the epoxy and let it dry:

After letting it sit all night, I can just clip it to my ruler and draw any arc I want to. It's cool. Works well.

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Kitesquid · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:14 am Post subject:

NICE home modified tool!!!!!!!
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Progcraft · Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 9:20 am Post subject:

I just realized I can turn that into a beam compass just by pulling out the pointy part of the same compass and gluing that to another coat hanger clamp. Viola, instant cheap beam compass. Smile

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danger mouse · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 11:35 am Post subject:

Very goog idea there.
I made one from a length of Carbon two bits of rubber tube driled througth
crossways ,slide on to Carbon then pencil one end and a piece of dowel with a nail the other end.

Progcraft · Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 12:06 pm Post subject: