Shop Made Tools

[fortcollinsjerry]

Mark - is your's an original? would live to see it if it is.

[Mark K]

Yup, Jerry, it's an original in 54. The wood grain was sort of bland until I rubbed a lot of neat Ballistol into it.



Mark

I should probably have started a new thread here. Sorry, won't happen again.

[gary hart]

I guess Hawkins are tools. Besides for hunting they come in handy going up steep slopes to use as a third leg. Built mine in 1973. The barrel started out 50 caliber but by time got done lapping the barrel it was 52 cal.

[macona]

I showed my shop made tubing bender a few pages back. But, what good is a tubing bender without a tubing notcher. I just finished my lathe notcher parts. Works great, especially with the power feed.

Ditch the hole saws and get some annular cutters. Even the cheap ones on ebay are better than a hole saw and they are only about $20. A friend of mine was using them to cope joints out of chrome moly for a recumbent bicycle.

[bborr01]

Ditch the hole saws and get some annular cutters. Even the cheap ones on ebay are better than a hole saw and they are only about $20. A friend of mine was using them to cope joints out of chrome moly for a recumbent bicycle.

Hi Macona,

Thanks for the tip on the annular cutters. They look like a light duty shell mill, and do look like they would work a lot better than a hole saw for notching tubing.

Brian

[The Artful Bodger]

Do you ever get tired of swapping the centre drill in and out with other drills in your tailstock chuck? Me too, so this I what I did this morning.


First I found a centre with a drilled centre at the small end.



I mounted that in the lathe. One could say "A centre between centres"!



I used my DRO to accurately align the axis of the compound with the side of the centre.


I turned a taper using just the compound being careful to lock the cross slide and carriage.


END Part One

[The Artful Bodger]

I also drilled and tapped the end of the taper.



After removing the chuck I could test my taper in the spindle, good fit!



I turned the end of the work so that there was a parallel piece and another taper. The small bit was parted off after I had cut a thread on the parallel section.


Using a specially ground tool I was able to run the spindle backwards and with the compound still set for the taper angle I cut another taper inside the end of the workpiece.

END Part Two

[The Artful Bodger]

The end of the workpiece was then tapped deeper.



Then I tried the small piece screwed into the end of the workpiece. It looked good.



This is the completed small piece, you can see the thread, the taper, the hole through the middle that matches the diameter of the centre drill and of course the slots that I cut with the HACK saw.



Not much more to do except to put the assembly in Sally shaper to cut spanner flats on it.


END of Part Three

[The Artful Bodger]

Here it is mounted in the tail stock. I also put a plug in the small end so that the tail stock ejector thingy would have something to bear on.

Although not the most elegant device to be posted on THSM&MWS I must confess to being quite pleased with the outcome.


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[John Stevenson]

See post 32 for a variation on this, not the holder part , which is very good but the length.

A lot of import lathes with small tailstock travels would not be able to reach the work with a short holder.

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