Sleeve Body

To turn the outside of the sleeve, I first turned a simple lathe chuckling arbor and cap. The cap compresses the sleeve blank onto the arbor using a 1/4-20 bolt.

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Below you can see the arbor and sleeve side-by-side.

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One hell of a lot of swarf later the 19 sleeves are ready for machining the bottom ring and cutting the ports.

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