Grotty Found Object To Useful Gadget.

[Dennis]

While walking down our High Street, my eye was caught by a discarded lighter in the crack of the pavement. Remembering something from ‘Cheap Thrills In The Workshop’, by Charles Lewton-Brain, I brought it home to cut out the flint wheel, discarding the die-cast thumb wheels on either side.

Drilling out the softer steel axle was easy enough, done in two stages with some lubricant, to accommodate the screw of a screw mandrel.

The result mounted, is a rotary file for flex-shaft, which can be used for trimming round and oval holes to a scribed line and other jobs, where a file won’t go, or simply because you prefer rotary tools. Dennis.