Dizzy Blanking Plug
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I fancied playing on the lathe over the weekend so decided to turn up a dizzy blanking plug for the clubby:



A bit of round stock



Cut down to size, note the home made nut holding the cutting post to the table.



Turned down to about the right size



Checking to see if it fitted, don't want to have to force it in there.



Boring it out to get the weight down, every little helps.



Used an off cut of CF for make a securing bracket, hopefully lighter than the original steel one, also CF is nice and springy which should help to hold the plug in place.



The finished product, seem to do the job and is nice & light to boot, sorry about the last picture it would appear that I made it too shinny & my camera phone couldn't cope.

Edited by Rob H on 13th Sep, 2009.

good effort there mate. have you copyrighted this one though

FPMSL!!

On 13th Sep, 2009 stefaz said:
good effort there mate. have you copyrighted this one though

Well, if you had thought about it, you could have made it a tollerence fit, then you dont need the bolt or the carbon fibre. Makes it a bit lighter.
Mind you making it a losse fit means that you are not infringing copy rights, as there is no need to hammer the bloody thing home

Do you really think I could machine a tolerance fit on that crappy lathe?

a bad workman blames his tools

Edited by Sprocket on 13th Sep, 2009.

looks good rob:)

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Every time I see people knocking stuff up on their laves, I get more and more gealous!

you should have bored it thru for an extra breather ,
maybe?

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Looks fab mate.

O seal Rob ? or a bead of RTV ?

Rich.

Edited by turbominivanman on 14th Sep, 2009.

Minivanless, but reluctantly happy living with the decision. There'll be another one day.
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i was chuckling at the amount of gaurds on your retro lathe,

quality!

Going to go for a good old o ring.

The lack of guards means there's no mirco-switchs to over ride.

Guards are for people without excess fingers.

In boost we trust

nice lathe rob !

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

what speed do you use for that ali stock rob?

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

I haven't the faintest clue what speed, my lathe was built before the concept of cutting speeds was invented, the big pulley goes off to a massive tread mill with a donkey on it. I keep meaning to rig up a rev counter using a 36 -1 timing disc & an EDIS module but I haven't got round to it yet.

should i put it back in the post lol?

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

very neat job sir.

Best 1/4 mile 13.2 seconds @116 mph
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i saw the first pic and was like crikey thats some plug your making there, finished product looks like magpies would steal it all shiney :) good job!