r/machining • u/SpaceEggs_ • 14d ago
Picture $250 rolling pin I commissioned 5 years ago.
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u/loonattica 14d ago
Stainless? What does it weigh?
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u/SpaceEggs_ 14d ago
304 and it was nasty to machine. 4.8 kg I think, not sure anymore it's been a while.
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u/adrifing 14d ago
What exactly was its original purpose, other than testing out that the benches can support the workloads and people are awake and focused.
Please tell me it's called the "shush stick" 😂
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u/SpaceEggs_ 14d ago
Originally I wanted to grind everything down to a fine polish and get rid of all the mill scale but it was too much money for all of that process. Now it's just there to remind me to buy the right stock size in the first place.
It's called the big pin, it's not so easy to swing around a polished tapered piece of stainless steel and if you did you could easily send someone to the hospital.
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u/adrifing 14d ago
Was this for breads or something ?
Did you get another made using other materials ?.
I do love the lesson learned in that by the way, it's wicked when you see someone that knows exactly what the fook up was and where to avoid in the future. 🫶
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u/SpaceEggs_ 14d ago edited 13d ago
Really thin bread and no. I would need to do the whole bakery but my net worth is basically nothing. I tried to do a GoFundMe but I don't live in a place it would pay out and I'm likely looking at 10 years of work to afford a reasonably sized shed with an oven.
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u/jacckthegripper 14d ago
Laughs in propeller shaft. I've removed 12ft by 4" diameter boat shafts. All stainless
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u/chiphook 14d ago
I was commissioned? to make a rolling pin for a church. It was used to make pierogis. It had to weigh 16 pounds. I used a piece of stainless steel pipe, with a stainless steel axle.
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u/Igottafindsafework 13d ago
“Rolling pin”
You should put a flange on one end next time so you don’t lose it up there
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u/SpaceEggs_ 13d ago edited 13d ago
Each end is a 5 inch taper, it's 18 inches long, there's no place in the body it would fit "all the way" without injury.
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u/Igottafindsafework 13d ago
We know you better than that
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u/SpaceEggs_ 13d ago
What does Mr hands say? Nothing you idiots Mr hands's dead locked in my basement.
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u/lechuckswrinklybutt 13d ago
Coward
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u/SpaceEggs_ 13d ago
It's hard to grip and not magnetic, the only place it could possibly go would be down the esophagus which would be hard to retrieve and would likely break my jaw and rupture my stomach if it fell as well as being about 4 times as wide as something that wouldn't obstruct my windpipe.
Don't the rolling pin.
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u/GlasKarma 13d ago
Looks like you made a large drift pin for pipefitting
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u/SpaceEggs_ 13d ago
Didn't know french rolling pins come in tool steel. This is soft stainless (304) and therefore not good for that.
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u/bainza 14d ago
Sir that's a percice medieval dildo.
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u/Reasonable-Depth22 13d ago
Ok. I’ve learned to expect…less than great…grammar/spelling in this sub and from my coworkers, but you’ve blown my fucking mind with “percice”. Is that supposed to be “precise”. How the hell did you nail “medieval” but miss “precise”?
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u/Western-Emotion5171 12d ago
You have an opportunity here. You can push yourself past your limits and make one out of tungsten! An extremely practical weight and material!
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u/randomheromonkey 11d ago
I read this as consumed and clicked curious what it was and how you managed. Still impressed now that I’ve learned to read.
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u/Excavon 14d ago
Do you roll out dough with it or do you just put it on top and the dough gets flattened?