2017 POTD Thread Archive

BGHansen said:

I really like my Grizzly G0709 lathe set up; good variety of quick change tool holders within an easy grasp. One of my other lathes is a Clausing 12 x 24 which usually has a 5C collet chuck mounted. The QC tool holders for it had been setting in a HF tool cart within an easy reach, but not as convenient as the Grizzly set up. The Clausing doesn’t have a back splash on it which leaves some hard to get to places to sweep up swarf on the back side of the lathe.

I “stole” the idea on a roll-around back splash/tool holder from another poster on this site. I couldn’t find the OP’s posting to give them proper credit but will if I eventually find it. Second best activity is reading through old postings on this site!


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Found the original concept in POTD, so kudos to Roadie33 for the original idea. Here's the page with Mike's post.

Bruce

http://hobby-machinist.com/threads/...-did-you-do-in-your-shop-today.14637/page-327

Thanks for the link. I followed it, planning to give the post a "like." Lo and behold, I'd already liked it when it!

My TPAC Tools lathe DRO came with a sheet steel rack for collet storage. Happened to be 1.10” diameter holes for R-8 mill collets, so not very useful on the lathe. Finally got around to work on mounting the rack to my mill’s DRO arm. Problem is the rack came with 10 holes and with my set of collets run from 1/8” – 7/8” by 1/16”, needed space for a baker’s dozen. On top of that, it’d be nice to have my drill chucks and 20 mm collet with an electronic edge finder handy also.

Solution was to add an extension onto the end of the steel rack. Cut the blank from 1/8” aluminum and laid out the holes with Dykem. I’d never used the center finder attachment on my Shars co-axial indicator to find a center punched hole, so gave that a shot. Long story longer, got there eventually, but will stick with a wiggler in the future. Probably just lack of experience on my part, but I can find a center punched hole a lot quicker with the wiggler than the co-ax.

Drilled and bored the holes to size (1.100”) on the mill. Screwed the extension to the rack and scribed two overlapping collet holes. Those were bored oversized for clearance. Screwed the rack and extension to the DRO arm and loaded it up. It worked, but there was a lot of cantilevered material and weight hanging out there, so it’d bounce up/down very easily.

Made up a bracket pattern to tie the cantilevered end back to the DRO arm out of chipboard. Transferred that pattern to 1/8” aluminum, then band sawed, sanded and bent up the bracket. Everything is bolted up with 8-32, 10-24 and ¼”-20 button head cap screws and nylock nuts. Version 2.0 is rock solid! Next improvement will be a draw bar wrench holder on the existing rack front screw hole. Seems like my draw bar wrench continually vibrates off the table and hits the floor.

Bruce

Well I couldn't let Bruce have all the fun with tidying quick change tool holders. Seeing his post inspired me to take mine out of the little wooden box I had them hiding in, and mount them on the wall. I used some clear vinyl tubing over the screws to protect the tool holders from being scratched.







I figure I'll probably buy another couple, hence the two unoccupied spaces at the right end. If I end up with many more holders (probably will be the case...), I can mount another strip of pine under or beside the existing one.

Then I got really ambitious and made a bit better use out of the work bench. Nothing fancy, just moved the tool box a bit closer to the lathe and installed a basic shelf above it for the radio. I hope the new empty space to the right doesn't just collect junk.





I hope this is the beginning of a roll to clean up some of the clutter on this side of the garage.

Posted a during construction photo a while back, Here it is in the customers cottage. The top is quarter sawn ash from my sawmill. Had to buy the 2 inch material for the base.
The wings on either end pull out and the top drops down to make the table 7 feet long.


Greg

Not much but I finally got something done in the shop. Retro fitting a mid 50s jubilee horn from and old panhead on my 84 shovel head. Still working out some issues but today slotted the stock bracket to allow it to clear the gas petcock. However I could not find my r-8 collects. And I don't have an r-8 collet holder for my er32 collects. But I had an extra R-8 3/8 collets. So I free handed the 1/2 slot.

Took more than 1 day but I made a holder for my plasma torch to cut wheels on my positioner. I was cutting the wheels on the mill with a slit saw and was taking waaay to long. This way saves me hours per wheel.

That's a nice little part there

markknx said:

Not much but I finally got something done in the shop. Retro fitting a mid 50s jubilee horn from and old panhead on my 84 shovel head. Still working out some issues but today slotted the stock bracket to allow it to clear the gas petcock. However I could not find my r-8 collects. And I don't have an r-8 collet holder for my er32 collects. But I had an extra R-8 3/8 collets. So I free handed the 1/2 slot.View attachment 239735

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today I found my R-8 collets. in all that has been going on they never got moved to the new shop. have to get around to organizing my tooling.

I bought a couple of those harbor freight tool boxes a couple months back, one of them i placed between the mill and the lathe. I figured i could put the tooling for each in it. It quickly became a bit of a mess to work on it and use it for tool storage. So being i have some time off from work, im taking advantage of it by taking on as many of the shop problems as i can.



Tool holders all in place, I made some boxes and covered them with aluminium diamond plate, the right side will be for lathe tailstock tooling. The left side will be for tooling for the mill. I plan to make a couple dimple dies and punch out the sizes I need in the diamond plate. I'm pretty happy with the way everything has come out so far.

The laptop computer is used for some pipe bending software, converting my old manual tubing bender to hydrallic/Air.

Thanks for dropping by.
Rich