BXA Toolholder rack brackets

[ChrisAttebery]

Thank you. The lathe is a Yangzhou 13x40 gear head lathe.

Nice work on the custom end brackets.
What lathe do you have? That paint color and primer underneath look very familiar

 

[Bob Korves]

Sometimes things just get pushed back to the end of the list and get forgotten. Apparently my tool rack was one of those things.

I finally got back around to it this weekend. I machined the mounting brackets, cut a 30” section of 8020 1010 rail and got the tool rack installed on my backsplash.

I did essentially the same as what you did, Chris, but without the beautiful classy design. I used Uni-strut channel mounted above the backsplash, and cut 1/8" thick 1 1/2" aluminum angle to fit the dovetails, cut slightly oversize and then filed a bit to fit. It went quite quickly, I already had the Uni-strut, and the other parts were cheap and were made and assembled quickly.

Magnetic tool holder

I am in the process of re-arranging and organizing my garage and considered getting a magnetic tool bar to hold all my CXA tool holders. However that got me thinking that my CXA tool holders would then become magnetized and start attracting every little bit of ferrous metal that shows up near...

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