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Flaky234

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Pex,

 

Do you have access to a digital caliper or micrometer? If not, drill a hole in some hard material like aluminum and make the hole the same diameter as you want your spindle. You can use this hole in the aluminum piece as a makeshift guide to test "fit" the spindle as you file it down starting at the tip. It takes some patience. We all have a natural tendency to bear down on the file right where the spindle meets the cone which causes a narrow section.

 

Try Mr.B's suggestion of ramming with wheat flower first. Your picture may be just an optical illusion.

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I just tried. And when pulling the spindle out out the composition cracks. Tomorrow i try to make the spindle a bit thinner. And give it a nother try
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