Instead of going the normal route – finding friends with machine tools or paying a machine shop, he improvised a rudimentary metal lathe. The finished couplers were concentric to 0.005″.

As homemade lathes go, this one is surprisingly conventional. Others have been fashioned from engine parts, or concrete. Thanks [Xavier] for the tip.

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