Custom Door Lock Knobs

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I write this post with my hands still oily from the machine shop.

My black plastic door knobs are 39 years old. One of them broke apart in my hand when I tried to unlock the door when it got down to about 20 below a few weeks ago.

After a few weeks of pulling on threads to lock and unlock my door, I finally got fed up and machined a new set out of stainless steel.

I had some half inch round stock laying around so I made a rough profile with calipers and programmed it into my CNC lathe. Spun it down, drilled and tapped it to 10-24, and hit it with some polishing compound on a buffing wheel. I love the way polished stainless looks. Figured I would post it here to see what you all think of how it looks.

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Sweet! Much better then the plastic junk!
 

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I have chrome skulls from hellmart.
But yours are ok too....I guess....:rolleyes:

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Way cool..
 

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looks sweet!
 

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Nice job.
 

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I think there might just be a market for these. How long and how much effort were they? Be worth making to sell some???
 

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I like those a lot.
 

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Cool. I'd like to place an order too!
 

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I'll do some figuring and see if I can't make some. I'll let you all know, stay tuned.

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Depending on how much i could use 4 too
 

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