A ball-joint for a Harold Hall grinding rest

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

G'day.

Like many of you I decided to build Harold Hall's grinding rest from the Workshop Practice book 'Tool & Cutter Sharpening'.

The problem was that I could not find the 1" plastic ball for the table mount.

Mentioned it to a mate & he gave me a 24mm steering arm ball joint from a car that his son had just bent a bit

Not only did it do the job perfectly, it also had a 10mm threaded spigot.

Here's the end result. Sorry if it's a bit rough but it was the second thing that I made

Regards from the land of the kangaroo

Cu Later *Danny M*

 

 

Edited By Danny M2Z on 02/06/2013 08:57:18

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

A substitute for the 1″ plastic ball

[Mark P.Participant @markp]

If it works so much the better,I like simple solutions.

Mark P.

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Used a stearing arm ball joint to make an ajustable mount for a data projector at our local Church. With all the earth quakes we have had, the projector has not moved off target. Ian S C

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

HI Danny,

Great idea!

Neil

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