# Wood lathe and delrin?

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**Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance\
**Created:** [August 1, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/wood-lathe-and-delrin/81403 "2016-08-01T21:08:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![shakazulu94](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/shakazulu94/32/635504_2.png) [@shakazulu94](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/shakazulu94)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/wood-lathe-and-delrin/81403/1 "2016-08-01T21:08:08Z")

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Could a wood lathe turn delrin?

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**Author:** ![jhb8426](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhb8426/32/631_2.png) [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/wood-lathe-and-delrin/81403/2 "2016-08-01T22:56:20Z")

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Sure. Why not?

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**Author:** ![Cannon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Cannon](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Cannon)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/wood-lathe-and-delrin/81403/3 "2016-08-01T23:08:22Z")

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Try it. If it doesn’t work well, what are you out?

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**Author:** ![Colbywill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Colbywill](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Colbywill)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/wood-lathe-and-delrin/81403/4 "2016-08-02T00:18:51Z")

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Yeah it’ll work! You can turn acrylic on a wood lathe.

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**Author:** ![Myk\_Myk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/myk_myk/32/63087_2.png) [@Myk\_Myk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Myk_Myk)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/wood-lathe-and-delrin/81403/5 "2016-08-02T02:02:39Z")

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> [@Cannon](#):
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> Try it. If it doesn’t work well, what are you out?

Well, Delrin’s not cheap…

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**Author:** ![RyN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@RyN](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/RyN)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 12:16am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/wood-lathe-and-delrin/81403/6 "2016-08-04T00:16:43Z")

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I heard that some wood lathes can turn delrin but wood lathes can sometime be set to spin too fast and melt the delrin. I’ve heard metal lathes work best on delrin.

I’ve never used a lathe of either type, I just heard this when I was researching getting one a while back.

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**Author:** ![Colbywill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Colbywill](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Colbywill)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 2:38am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/wood-lathe-and-delrin/81403/7 "2016-08-04T02:38:48Z")

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That makes sense ^^ I’m sure you’d need to sharpen your tools really well, and hopefully your lathe has variable speeds.

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**Author:** ![Cannon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/919ad9/32.png) [@Cannon](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Cannon)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2016, 3:32am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/wood-lathe-and-delrin/81403/8 "2016-08-04T03:32:17Z")

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So this is going to sound super stupid and uniformed, for that I am sorry but…

In a shop class I took we threaded a plastic rod on a metal lathe and it worked fine 😜