New use for old Camshafts
 

I found a neat way to use some old camshafts; as table legs. The top is a piece of the eucalyptus tree we took out last spring, about 4" thick. It weighs a bunch, but it will support my favorite beverage.

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Neat use for old cams but how did you cut the wood? I dulled and burned a chainsaw trying to cut eucalyptsus tree.

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I cut through one quite easily........ just ask my mother-in-law :-)

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I drilled a cam lengthwise years ago and made a lamp out of it.

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I have 3 cams and was going to make an aluminum boomerang shaped table years ago........but it's still waiting. I have a carb lamp, 2 paint gun lamps and a parking meter lamp.....auto parts are the best furniture.

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The profile of the teeth for cutting eucalyptus is different to the profile for cutting other woods. It also has to be sharpened at certain angles to prevent quick blunting.

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To 1oldtimer above: I have an Edmund and Jones 1913 era acetylene headlight. Is this the sort of thing that you referred to as your "carb lamp"? I would like to know how you made the lamp.

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It cuts real easy when it is green, and becomes rock hard when it dries. Bill

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It's an actual carb, a Rochester 2 jet that was junk. I bought a lamp kit from Builders Emporium (it was that long ago) and found some wood for a base. Did the same thing with my old paint guns.

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And obviously a very understanding wife.....