Finished my AXA toolpost

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Chuck K

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I've been working on a few axa toolposts on and off for a while. Today I made a handle for one of them and tried it out. Works fine but after turning the offset on the center piece a second time, my handle position is off by 90 degrees. Just have to drill and tap another hole.20190421_152736.jpg
 
Came out really nice, Chuck!
 
larry4406 said:
Can you just face/grind it 1/4 turn equivalent vs tapping a new hole?
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Yeah....I could shorten the pistons. The problem comes when I try to use import holders rather than my homemade holders. They are all different. I have the travel great enough to lock down even the loosest import holder as it is. If I shorten the travel a few probably won't lock. That's where wedge toolposts really have an advantage.
 
I’ve cut a few dovetails in tools and made some homemade specialty tool blocks so sometimes I have to machine the homemade blocks a bit larger than the original measurements by a few thousands.

Now in your case I’d do what you suggested by drill and tap a new hole and plug the original. I did the same to my import QCTP
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Nice looking tooling!

Whenever I get a QCTP (I think 3 so far), I drill & tap extra handle holes every 90º, so it's never a problem to locate the handle out of the way, even for unusual situations.
 
Thanks for the replies guys. When I finish machining everything, I'm going to get the turkey fryer out and blacken all of the parts. That's such a nasty process that I prefer to wait until I can do a lot of parts at one time.
 
jdedmon91 said:
I’ve cut a few dovetails in tools and made some homemade specialty tool blocks so sometimes I have to machine the homemade blocks a bit larger than the original measurements by a few thousands.

Now in your case I’d do what you suggested by drill and tap a new hole and plug the original. I did the same to my import QCTP
This is the video


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I moved the handle today. I planned on adding a ball oiler like you did on yours but I seem to have stored the bag of ball oilers in one of those special places that I can't remember. I"m sure they will turn up as soon as I buy more of them. For the time being I cut and slotted the end of a bolt to plug the hole. 20190427_164852.jpg
 
Chuck K. I didn’t put a ball oiler in my post. Just made an aluminum plug that’s threaded and locktited it into place


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Nice work- you made that whole thing yourself? Looks like factory (in a good way)
Mark
 
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