Wooden Capacitors.

[Yorkie]

Strewth, you do get around Joe!

I'm not sure what his point is - why wood and not metal? Are they on display - were the original ones wood - are they on display, and why did he open up and discard the metal can of the new cap?

I won't comment on his turning or his pricing, as that might seem conceited, except to say that their ought not to be a 'pip' in the end. He must have had a live centre in his tailstock pressed into the wood in the headstock for some reason, but there's no need for a live centre to come into contact with the wood - that's only for spindle turning. In the few situations where a live centre is called for for work held in a headstock, the live centre can be buffered with something like a rubber doorstop held between the live centre and the workpiece.

50 Euro not including the cap? He's having a laugh, surely? (About 15 - 20 mins turning involved).

And why not turn the case with a blind hole into it, then part if off on the lathe with the solid end intact, rather than make it in two pieces - a cylinder and a circular blank glued into the end.

Oh well - they walk among us