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Working With Rubber Continued
What you see here is a stainless steel bushing that I'm putting a
slight angle on one end. This knife edge will act like a hole-punch of
sorts for cutting out my rubber feet.
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The inside diameter is 5/16", which should
work great for this project. Not too small and not too big either
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With a piece of soft wood under the rubber, I used some
pliers to hold the bushing and then hit the bushing with my hammer. This
method worked out great. Oh, the soft wood is so the sharp edge on my
bushing didn't get damaged as it goes through.
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Here you can see a piece of rubber inside the bushing, to which I pushed
out with that punch. Very simple and it was easy to do.
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After a few minutes, I had all the rubber feet I needed.
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I'm using my milling machine to put some 3/16" diameter pockets in my
boards. I'm also using some paper under each board so they don't get
damaged while I'm working.
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I used tape to hold a piece of thin wood to each clamp so my boards
didn't get damaged.
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Here you see the pockets that are .085" to .090" deep. This will leave
the rubber sticking out approximately .100" (just shy of 1/8").
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I mixed up more epoxy to hold the rubber feet in with. With the use of
that pointed black plastic tool, I was able to dab a small amount of
epoxy in each pocket very accurately.
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I dabbed glue in each pocket first, then I inserted the rubber feet
using my fingers.
Here you can see two of the feet installed.
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