Show Us Your Shop Made Tooling!

[LEEQ]

Is that the name of your boring tool, or a name for the rough and ready tools made to get a job done? I like to steal Tom Lipton's name for those. He calls his dogmeat. I like making the dogmeat tools almost as much as the ones where I'm doing everything I can towards accurate and pretty.

 

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Double ended radius pin

 

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Set on center line with adjustable parallel, ready for use.

 

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Turning Horrible freight mag base indicator stand into something useful.If you look close at the spot face I put on it you can see the sandwich construction of the base.

 

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Setting the setter, and finally, setting the tools.

 

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With that little pin in my mic drawer, I can reface and easily reset the lathe tool height setter. I can slap it in the mill to center the spindle over an edge. It also allowed me to build a stack from cross slide to center line that I could repeatably measure. Well worth the effort.

 

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Now I feel silly. I forgot the key feature of the tool. Yep, that's right. It's a paper towel holder.

 

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All the thumbs up are great, but feel free to write something.

 

[extropic]

@LEEQ
My thumbs-up means I appreciate that you took the time to take pictures and create a post to share your project.

 

[LEEQ]

Thanks again for the thumbs. Here is the home I made for the quick change drill chuck on the tool board. Holy cow does PVC get weird shaped quick with the tiniest bit of clamping pressure. At a glance though it's a nice enough looking part. Now there are 15 tools centered and taught to the dro. Outsmarting the dro was by far the most daunting part of these projects.