Shop Made Tools

[hornluv]

Gary Hart, I love those little work holding creatures. I'm constantly bending up little clips from bailing wire to hold onto parts that are getting silver soldered. Works OK but they tend to open up when heat is applied.

Here's a buffer that I made. The plate is 18x18x.500, the shaft is 1". It gives me all the clearance I need when buffing larger objects. I'm still working on a proper dust collector hood though.



Here's a plate I made up for my tailstock so I could use a dial indicator on it.



Here's a rack I made for my BXA sized tool holders. The rods are 1/4" in diameter and the sides are 1x1/4" with the mounting holes 16" on center so I can screw it into the studs. I've filled it up quite a bit more since I took this pic.



Here's my version of the carriage stop. I angled the indicator mount up so I could read it without bending over (as much anyway).

[vpt]

^ That is a nice looking buffer! I just have a wheel on a old bench grinder right now on the back of a pedestal with a dyke arbor press on the front.

[terry_g]

Several years ago I purchased an old Southbend lathe, It came with no tooling. I made almost every thing for it. All the material came out of the scrap pile at work.

This is a rocker type tool holder I made. It works very well.
the rockers are tapered so they will not walk out of place.



Here is a follow rest I built.



This turret tool post uses shims underneath it to adjust for different size bits.



A simple carriage stop.



Terry

[terry_g]

Some more:

This steady was a slice off of a hydraulic cylinder.



A ball radius turning attachment.



A holder for a parting blade and a drill chuck. It works okay for light drilling and boring operations.





Terry

[clutch]

Originally Posted by bborr01

Made these when I was an apprentice. No cnc's back then.

I made them out of gage stock. It was a bitch to work with but it was worth it.

I'm pretty sure I had at least 100 hours into them including all the lathe time.

I made this one at a local community college. I was pursuing an industrial engineering technology program. They wanted us to make things so we would appreciate various technologies and also things like tolerances.



The commercial version is pictured for a comparison.

I used it for years at various places of employment and finally decided it was time to buy some Kant twists for work and bring my baby home where it can't get lost or stolen.

Clutch

[John Stevenson]

Found these today whilst I was searching some files. Not sure of the date of these because they were scanned in from original photo's.

Must have dated back from about 1978 /79 because this was before I had a milling machine and had to rely on the little Myford for everything.



This is a piston for one of the Jones twins, operation is milling all the cavity out in a new piston. Work is held in 3 jaw which in turn is held in a simple indexing head controlled by a change wheels for position.

This in turn is held by a vertical slide to control hight.



Boring the recess out beyond the gudeon / wrist pin bosses.




Boring the valve cutaways out again using the same homemade indexing attachment which can be seen better in this shot.



Toolpost grinder setup for some grinding operation about the same era because the pic's were alltogether, can't remember what it was.

At the time this little 7" swing lathe was all I had as regards machine tools other than a small home made bench drill but it bit sterling work.
I made close ratio gears for the Nortons, including broaching the 6 splines, many went on to race in the Isle of Man GP races and in Germany so it proves you don't always need the biggest and best although it helps <grin>

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[clutch]

Originally Posted by john hobdeclipe

Later, after I bought a Baldor buffer with a 3/4" arbor, I needed a way to open the bore on these. I came up with this:

Sweet. I need to make some gaskets for a hydraulic cylinder that doesn't use orings but instead uses end gaskets.

Thank you sir!.

Clutch

[clutch]

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A prick punch with a built-in slide hammer to avoid the problem of the punch shifting while you locate the hammer.

That is impressive. First reverse slide hammer I've ever seen.

Clutch

[vpt]

Originally Posted by John Stevenson

That is outstanding! Thanks for sharing!

[John Stevenson]

Finally found it.

And here's the one that started the Readers tips book 1 off.



Jack screw fitted to the vise jaw on a bandsaw to allow it to hold short pieces without tipping the jaws.

Bonus are the two V blocks to further support a short piece to allow a thin slice to be cut off safely and securely.

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