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Hi'all, I needed a bunch of soft wood discs whose dimensions doubly did not match my hole saw,so a make-do lathe was called in order. The centre whole had to stay below 4mm and none of my cheap hole saw OD was close enough to what I needed, that centre bit was 6mm anyway. It's a wreck of a battery powered drill mounted onto a wooden board scrap by means of an angle plate. Power comes temporarily from a random IT PSU off the junkbox with 12V being below the nominal 18V of this Mabuchi RS-550 "engine", but it did the trick. I clamped a section of fence post angle iron together with the drive in my vise so I had a tool rest for the chisel. It wobbled way to few rpms and the M4 threaded rod was plenty weak for having no tailstock supporting the far end but with adequate care, some curses and prayers the job went fine.

