Need material for way wipers

Go to a thrift store and look through the lady's hat section. You may find some made from thick heavy felt. Also a possibility is a discarded Texas Stetson (sp?)

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Mc master carr has a good selection of felt

Hi Jon Go get some felt insoles for boots . One pair should give you a lifetime supply . Works fine in my lathe . Ken Cutt

You should be able to find rolls of felt available in different widths and thicknesses in hardware departments of stores that sell weatherstripping/winterizing products. Frost King is one brand, I think. The last roll I got was about 1-1/4" w x 3/16" thick.
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Gary

You can fold the fabric store felt until it is the thickness you desire. Anybody know if fabric store felt will react/break down when it comes in contact with way oil? Nice idea.

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 08:38:31 -0500, "John L. Weatherly" I am thinking of making My Elliott mill has just such an arrangement, AFAIK fitted from new
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Tim Leech Dutton Dry-Dock
Traditional & Modern canal craft repairs

I'm doing the exact same thing for a lathe I'm rebuilding. The old wipers are not felt but appear to be a polyurethane type of material. The replacements I am making are cut from a sheet of polyurethane from McMaster Carr.
The machine is a Clausing Colchester with an integral lubrication system for the saddle and cross slide. My guess is that the poly way wipers act as a squeege to keep way lube under the carraige and swarf out.
Without a way to internally lube the ways, poly doesn't seem like a good idea as it would squeege all the lube off the way before it got to where it needs to be. Felt will allow a certain amount of oil to pass trough while sweeping swarf away.
You can get medium to hard felt at home centers and hardware stores. Weather stripping is a common application as well as little squares or buttons used for bottom of chairs so they don't scratch hardwood floors. These can usually be found in sheets as well that are cut to size.

Brownells sells wool felt in 3 different densities: see
Randy

That would be a terrible thing to do to a lathe! :-)
Harold

A city wide blackout at Thu, 08 Jan 2004 07:32:03 GMT did not prevent Gunner from posting to rec.crafts.metalworking the following: This assumes that there exists such an item as a "discarded Texas Stetson"
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Thanks, everyone, for all the suggestions. It took a while to scour all of McMaster-Carr's choices in this. It turns out I needed it 3/8" thick, which narrowed the choices a bit. This stuff is EXPENSIVE, too! It was $3x.xx for a 10' roll 1.5" wide! The sheets were $56.xx, so I'm glad they had the rolls, too.
Jon