When you dont have a milling machine and you want Tee Nuts and none to be had in town.
There are simple solutions, here is yet one of the more might I say involved methods.
First pick up scrap aluminum and put in 4 jaw chuck.
Turn to width and thickness.
Now the hard part turn to the next thickness but leave what I call a boss to drill and tap on the lathe.
I left dimensions a wee large so I could file to exact size, (old school part).
Reason being, the dreaded Tee Slot is a little hard to measure and I was lazy.
Now I have a pattern for more Tee Nuts.
The Tee Nut allows you to clamp down stuff using the Tee Slot to hold the nut.
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