Show Us Your Shop Made Tooling!

[8ntsane]

Bernie

Here is what I use.
The top two pics are a modded drill press I use when doing bolt patterns. The bottom pic is the drilling rigs I use with a hand drill attached to the end. The one for the QCTP is used for side, and face drilling. The other fits my 4-way tool post, and allows me to mount up on the back side. This allows more clearance for large diameter work, and long drill bits. The wheel laying on the saddle shows what can be done in only one chucking.
Sorry the pics are 90 degree,s out of wack, again just tilt your head to the left. Gotta figure out how to fix that ,lol

 

[wawoodman]

Bernie

Here is what I use.
The top two pics are a modded drill press I use when doing bolt patterns. The bottom pic is the drilling rigs I use with a hand drill attached to the end. The one for the QCTP is used for side, and face drilling. The other fits my 4-way tool post, and allows me to mount up on the back side. This allows more clearance for large diameter work, and long drill bits. The wheel laying on the saddle shows what can be done in only one chucking.
Sorry the pics are 90 degree,s out of wack, again just tilt your head to the left. Gotta figure out how to fix that ,lol

Neat! Does the shaft ride in bearings, or bronze sleeves, or anything?

 

[8ntsane]

Mike
The one mounted in a boring bar QCTP holder does not have any bearings installed. The other shown for the 4-way turret TP does. The boring bar holder was smooth inside the bore, so I just machined up a shaft to fit the bore. It works well with smear of grease on the shaft. I didn't use bearings on that one because I wanted the ability to slide the shaft out and reverse it. Making it useable for side, and face drilling.

I have a few to choose from, but if you really wanted to make it better, I would use a brass sleeve that is machined to a shoulder. That way you could still slide the sleeve out to reverse it. Those boring bar holders have two pinch bolts that would retain the sleeve. You could also add a bearing behind the chuck as well. Then you could use the crosslide to apply the pressure when drilling.

One last thing to mention. A lot of people think those boring bar holders are to hard to machine. I used a boring bar holder to hold my tool post grinder, and had to bore it to 1- inch ID, and slit the block and add a pinch bolt. I found those holders not hard to machine at all.

 

[itsme_Bernie]

Bernie

Here is what I use.
The top two pics are a modded drill press I use when doing bolt patterns. The bottom pic is the drilling rigs I use with a hand drill attached to the end. The one for the QCTP is used for side, and face drilling. The other fits my 4-way tool post, and allows me to mount up on the back side. This allows more clearance for large diameter work, and long drill bits. The wheel laying on the saddle shows what can be done in only one chucking.
Sorry the pics are 90 degree,s out of wack, again just tilt your head to the left. Gotta figure out how to fix that ,lol

Man that is great!! I have a little spare drill press head laying around (collect much?? HYAH hah) .. What a great idea!

This week I am setting up my QCTP to be able to drill. FANTASTIC way to work once it is lined up! I can even use normal drills for Brass without it "pulling" the bit while using the carriage feed instead... Feed in, release, draw out and clear chips, and right back in!


Bernie

 

[Harvey Melvin Richards]

I machine a lot of small flat parts, quite often made of plastic. I made these small toe clamps 10+ years ago, and I use them so much, I made a bunch more. The thread is 1/4-20.



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I often need to machine holes or flats on small diameter (under 3/8"). These items are difficult to hold with conventional vee blocks, so I made my own more useful block.



The threaded holes are 1/4-20 and run all the way through the block. The block gets held in a standard mill vise. Quite often I'm shifting the toe clamps to get access to the part.



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I'm often attempting to hold slippery items in the mill vise. To make this easier I made some soft jaws with threaded hold down holes.

 

[Harvey Melvin Richards]

This table drops into the vise. Everything squares up and there is no need to remove the vise and dial in a sub plate. The top needs more overhang on the ends so that material can also be clamped using conventional clamps.



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This is an angle plate that hangs over the edge of the mill table. This allows me to work on parts too large to fit under the head of the mill.

 

[8ntsane]

Nice work Harvey
That that job looks 1 st class, and should prove to be very usefull for up coming jobs.
:thumbsup:

 

[Sharky]

Since I've been watching this thread, I decided to post a few of my own creations:

Small brass v-block


Small screw jack


MT2 Center drill holders


Height setter


Height setter in use


And... just for fun...

 

[sanddan]

Since I've been watching this thread, I decided to post a few of my own creations:






And... just for fun...
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Care to share how you did this one?

 

[Sharky]

Care to share how you did this one?

I wish I could take all the credit, but here is a link with good photo explanation of the process:

http://www.frets.com/HomeShopTech/Projects/CaptiveNut/captivenut.html

I took it a step further on the one I made for my dad, I bored out one end to match a
quick-connect key ring. It gets a lot of attention on the table at lunch!