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The New Hotness

  • MicroMark Bandsaw Cover Screw Knobs

    These descend directly from the LMS Mini-Lathe cover knobs:

    Micro-Mark bandsaw cover screw knob
    Micro-Mark bandsaw cover screw knob

    The top pair of screw heads aren’t quite flush with the cover, so the knobs have 1 mm extensions:

    Micromark Bandsaw - cover screw knobs - upper
    Micromark Bandsaw – cover screw knobs – upper

    The bottom pair sit inside 4 mm recesses, so those knobs get matching extensions:

    Micromark Bandsaw - cover screw knobs - lower
    Micromark Bandsaw – cover screw knobs – lower

    Attacking an anonymous 5 mm hex wrench with a Dremel cutoff wheel produced a quartet of 12 mm shafts and reduced drawer clutter by one unit.

    In retrospect, I should have dismantled the cover, grabbed the screws in a vise with their shafts vertical, and epoxied all the knobs with perfect alignment. Next time, maybe.