Shop Made Tools

[sasquatch]

Just darned nice workmanship in this category!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[H380]

Here is a hammer one of my students made last year. It is exactly to print. The head is W1 and the handle is 1045. The knurling is quite fine otherwise it tends to shred the the hands.



-DU-

Boy that sure looks familiar! I know where the drawing originated now. The school I am attending has a Drafting class. My shop teacher had 6 different prints of that hammer made. Each version has different measurements. All combination of metric, fractions and decimal measurements with most missing. I am making a tap wrench now. Does that book have a drawing for one?

[swordfish]

Drawhttp://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g423/sabu386/IMG_4019.jpgbar Hammer built from inspiration from this site. The hammer's handle radius washer adds a nice finish. Knurled handle cut with aloris no.19.

[swordfish]

Second pic.

[deltaenterprizes]

How did you do the internal hex?

[PixMan]

How did you do the internal hex?

Looks like a bought & modified deep socket tool to me.

[murph64]

Me too....That knurled ring near the end looks Ed Zachary like the couple of NAPA sockets I have



Andy

[Davo J]

Really nice job on the hammers guys.

Swordfish
I like the washer idea, gives it a neat appearance. Did you just tap it into the side of the socket or all the way through? Or did you pit something inside to thread into?

Dave

[Void]

Boy that sure looks familiar! I know where the drawing originated now. The school I am attending has a Drafting class. My shop teacher had 6 different prints of that hammer made. Each version has different measurements. All combination of metric, fractions and decimal measurements with most missing.

Yep. In fact I made the exact same hammer in my HS shop class 40 years ago. It came out just as nice. Someone pinched it from me about 30 years ago :-(. Most all of the shop projects were tools of some sort. The only one I have left is one of my own design, a ring mandrel. All the others were pinched.

Some of the tools are worth re-scaling if you want a different size. The MT gages were originally for MT3. Mine is MT2. The hammer could easily be made in three or more different sizes.

I am making a tap wrench now. Does that book have a drawing for one?

Yes, in fact, it does have a tap wrench. It is near identical to a Starrett No. 91 series wrench. Definitely worth making in a half dozen sizes.

-DU-

[swordfish]

The hammer is made from a NAPA socket. It was surprisingly easy to drill and tap. With the radius washer I was able to have full threads all the way through one side of the socket and the handle threads were left extremely tight going into the socket along with blue locktite. This is a single purpose hammer obviously and thus far it has held up well. Had it failed plan B was to make a threaded insert to fit inside the socket. I have made half a dozen projects inspired or shamelessly copied from this thread. Thanks to all that have contributed. No project too small.