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barnesrickw

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Anybody ever made cam lobes with the intent of selling them to a guy with a manual mill and no confidence in making them on that or the lathe.
 
Anybody ever made cam lobes with the intent of selling them to a guy with a manual mill and no confidence in making them on that or the lathe.

There's a few different ways to make them, depending on what style you need. It was something that worried me initially but I've now made 5 or 6 single lobes and a one piece, 8 lobed 4 cylinder cam as well. All manual mill and lathe and nowhere near as difficult as I imagined it to be.

A simple 1 lobe affair can be made on the mill with a boring head in half an hour. I believe in you, you can do it!
 

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