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A friend has been diagnosed with IBM disease. Inclusion body myositis is a rare inflammatory condition of the muscles that causes weakness. One group of muscles involved in his case are the large thigh muscles making it difficult for him to stand from a sitting position. We have talked about raising...

The number one objective was to get a nice looking result. I am very happy with the results I am getting with the router.

I gotta ask .. why not use a 12" sanding disk and a miter gauge fence on your SS? The safety grip has a capacity of 4 1/4 inches. The outside diameter of 4 inch PVC is 4 1/2 inches. I do not have the luxury of owning any of the other machines mentioned but why bother, they would take all the f...

rpd wrote:

jgrounds wrote:Working on a project the requires nice square ends on PVC pipe. Came up with this jig.

https://youtu.be/yfNmNg4DJBw

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Is that a rotary tool?

Trim router but a rotary tool would work too.

Working on a project the requires nice square ends on PVC pipe. Came up with this jig.

https://youtu.be/yfNmNg4DJBw

joedw00 wrote:Nice job. How did you put the foot pegs on?

I used an arc welder on a very low setting.

Thanks,
John

Stilts for 7 YO Grand Daughter.

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Would it be possible to completely enclose and sound proof the stand?

John

Regarding the hold down clamp, this is the original that I am going to abandon infavor of a simple nut and bolt.

Original:

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Nut and bolt version:

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Wish I had taken a few progress photos but will try to provide additional information from what I have. The first step involved preparing the new way sections. I ordered a one foot piece of 5/8" x 2" tool steel and used a metal cutting band saw to cut the metal in half lengthwise. This pro...