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Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence
If you have the big bucks it would make more sense to just buy them and save yourself from having the spend time machining bearing blocks.  |
Yes... but if you already have the $80,000+ Lathe/Tooling and I would "hope" the experience to take full advantage of it, it would be a trivial part to make. Heck you go into production and sell them at the same price as vex almost....
Personally I've made the same design before, I would just machine them from billet on a tormach in two operations... basically start with a hunk of alum in the vice and then machine all of one side. Make some soft jaws (alum jaws bolted into the vice so I can machine a profile them to grab circle parts) and then flip them over and face off the otherside/other operations.
Good practice probably, especially if you haven't done parts this complicated before.