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The Machine Shop => Tools/Tips and Tricks => Topic started by: Bugpac on September 14, 2008, 09:17:30 PM
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Anyone have any to share? ;D
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I have many modded out tools ???
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just playing with some buttons
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I've taken alot of flak for my stand on tubing notchers,it kinda makes me giggle when I see all of these guys running the holesaw ones...I use a low buck tool and die notcher that is air powered, A dressed grinding stone,on the bench grinder... and some common sence...well prolly none of that ;D 90% of the time I have a perfect fitting tube in about a minute at almost any angle
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Bout how much dough you got tied up in that notcher and where do i get the parts to make it?
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The notcher came from here
http://www.lowbucktools.com/notcher.html (http://www.lowbucktools.com/notcher.html)
for about 325bux...I added the air cylender...I don't have a clue what it cost but I have a spare withe cylenoids...I custom dressed a stone just for the notching on my elcheapo bench grinder...bout 79 bux with the grinder...I'll post up some pix shortly of that
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I use my lathe as well as my mill for notching with hole saws. I made an adaptor that mounts this vise with swivel base in place of my tool post. I made a v jaw for the vise and also have various spacers I can add under the adaptor for offset notching. The vise was $60. The lathe and mill........not so cheap.
(https://dtsfab.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi363.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Foo76%2FKrasch_Design%2FLathenotching.jpg&hash=96deb541f9fc9d5dbd71519e054f03180b077a2e)
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Your stuff is so CLEAN! I'm seriously jealous.Wanna stop by my shop a couple of times a week and give it a "touch up cleaning"? I'd REALLY appreciate. I'm envious as hell!
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Home made hammer.
Really just a test of picture posting... Now to see if it works.
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You the MAN!!! Talk about "use what ya got"! I likey.
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That hammer and a shot bag!!!!!!!
5: You didn't tell us you were a wok maker mm:
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That hammer and a shot bag!!!!!!!
5: You didn't tell us you were a wok maker mm:
Actually a tree stump...
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was it hollow?
gg: ;D ;D
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was it hollow?
Naaaa... Solid Maple. Dished with a Chain saw and then OxActl burned and beat to the final shape.
Only my head is hollow, freeging echo gets annoying! :j
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Ya know, that kind of thinking is what this site is all about.Find a way to make something work from what we have to work with! COOL!!
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More pix
More pix
I know some guys here that have hollow heads ;D
and some that hear voices :o
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Here are a couple of home built tools that I use quite a bit.
First is this collet handle. I Turned an R8 taper inside a piece of tube. Welded on the handles and tighten with a 7/16-20 bolt from the opposit end. Great for large taps and hand reaming.
(https://dtsfab.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi363.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Foo76%2FKrasch_Design%2Fcollethandle.jpg&hash=cb1f23da729062e695d689017975bdfa19d00f05)
This is a work stop for my lathe. It's just two clamp collars welded concentric. The larger one clamps to the O.D. of the spindle bore tube. (where it exits out the back of the head)
The smaller one allows a stop tube to be inserted and set to any depth. The nose of the stop tube was welded on and turned for a slip fit with the spindle bore.
I use this when running batches of longer parts where I want the lengths the same.(https://dtsfab.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi363.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Foo76%2FKrasch_Design%2FStopmounted.jpg&hash=7b2ac9d31864ee328c5bad9fcb182e1b1801b5af)
(https://dtsfab.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi363.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Foo76%2FKrasch_Design%2Flatheendstop.jpg&hash=500776714bb556b2638ecf3b60c244e84648d19f)
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Well I really like the lathe stop!
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heres one i made to butt two tubes together perfectly while being able to tack them together. works for me.
(https://dtsfab.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi117.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fo68%2Fvoodoochikin04%2Fparts%2F10-26-08_2152.jpg&hash=9affd6cd8c741f5452e6c8e821b2eee3ae336bca)
(https://dtsfab.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi117.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fo68%2Fvoodoochikin04%2Fparts%2F10-26-08_2153.jpg&hash=dbdb19282abed9f9bb5a1f5df925235d1e1b3824)
(https://dtsfab.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi117.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fo68%2Fvoodoochikin04%2Fparts%2F10-26-08_2154.jpg&hash=8158ae79126b3c0837ab4ca281c7541e2e5f92d4)
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That is pretty cool voo doo...
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Ugly as hell but it works, that's why i like it. Ricks stuff is too pretty haha.
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heres one i made to butt two tubes together perfectly while being able to tack them together. works for me.
I have never made one, but back in the day... Lots of welders would take angle iron and weld it to the jaw of vice grips as a cradle, the one with a chain as the other half of the jaw, quick, easy and worked well on any small diameter pipe.
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I have never made one, but back in the day... Lots of welders would take angle iron and weld it to the jaw of vice grips as a cradle, the one with a chain as the other half of the jaw, quick, easy and worked well on any small diameter pipe.
Back in the day ;D
I still have a couple of those in a drawer under my build table 8)
VDC4's tool is cool...just keep in mind when butt welding tubes together to use a plug for the added strength ;D
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almost forgot my set of hammers i made at work for work.
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Here is my latest, still workin on it.
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Bead breaker, I was to cheap to buy one.
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This aint mine but I saw it and thought someone might benefit from it.
Simple and easy to improve on (wing nuts or T-nuts for pipe insertion/removal) (that sounds dirty....)
http://www.offroadfabnet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4764
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This aint mine but I saw it and thought someone might benefit from it.
Simple and easy to improve on (wing nuts or T-nuts for pipe insertion/removal) (that sounds dirty....)
http://www.offroadfabnet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4764
Its fun notching on the Lathe, you got to be damn careful tho, hole saws grab and hold on, were a end mill will just get whatever is in its way out....I about ripped the tool post right off my lathe with a hole saw...
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My homemade air over hydraulic bender, maybe $250 in materials. Ugly as hell but pretty much the first tool I built when I started doing metal work. I have actualy designed a really cool one, and even had the parts plasma cut, but I haven't built it yet. I'm only building a new one because I have the skill to make something that looks halfway decent after 4 years, the other one has never failed me...
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This shows a simple tube holder you could use the saw or a mill bit.
I WOULD NOT recommend the power feed to do this unless yours can be set SUPER low speed. Even then.
I meant the post above I put up. Yoshi got his bender in there between me an Bugs post.
You planning on adding more to that bender Yoshi? If not it needs paint!
I like its layout though.
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my mil notching setup. My biggest notch for my frame is around 72 degrees, I typically cut tubes at that angle on the saw first, then use the notcher to round it out...
the last pic is my work table that I design everything from panels to complete frames on. The top is 3 layers of 1" MDF, I draw on it, drill boards into it, and even weld on it with no problems, I replace the top layer every so often, it only has a handfull of screws holding it down...It was initially built 16" off the ground, but I made a second layer that bolts to the bottom to raise it up higher, which is how it is unless i'm designing a new chassis...
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Hey Yoshi how far will your bender bend in one shot?
Thats takes up a pretty small floor space and easy to make portable. Plus it looks like it could use many different common bottle jacks of sufficient power.
You might offer the plans for that.
Also do they call MDF board anything else? I have asked local and they looked at me phunny.
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Any lumber/building materials store that doesn't know what mdf is are idiots.Medium Density Fiberboard.
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Medium Density Fiberboard... pretty much all the saw dust (no larger particles) glued together into the form of a sheet. Much stronger and even than regular particle board.
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Hey Yoshi how far will your bender bend in one shot?
Thats takes up a pretty small floor space and easy to make portable. Plus it looks like it could use many different common bottle jacks of sufficient power.
You might offer the plans for that.
Also do they call MDF board anything else? I have asked local and they looked at me phunny.
120 degree in one shot. The 2 post above me answered the MDF question.
I will sell the plans and the plasma cut parts for the new bender i'm gonna design. You would just need to supply your own 2x2 tubing to build the stand, but my plans will show how to do everything. I got the first parts back 5 months ago, just haven't done anything with them yet. It will work the exact same as the one I had pictured, it will just look professional. I'm thinking it will be around or $150, which will include my indexer (pictured below), and where to buy the hydraulic press and the dies...
I also forgot, the pics I posted earlier where from a few years ago, I actually have been using a digital protractor so my bends come out the same every time.. I also built a clamp for the end of my tube so I can index the tube for multiple bends..
I'm also including a pic of the new bender plates I have to show what it will look like, there is a full size auto battery in the pic to give some size comparison..
The plates in the pic are 1/4" for my mockup, the final will be outta 3/8" or 1/2" plate...
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Very nice Yoshi. Reminds me of a midevil weapon of sorts! I like! For reasons I cannot explain I feel it needs a Dragon head atop it or etched somewhere.....
By indexer you mean the plane of bend bracket the degree wheel fits on to measure degrees of pivot?
For now I just have a tiny pair of vise grip pliers with angle iron welded to the jaws to grab the tube and a piece of angle iron welded to its back for my degree gauge (Looking for a better on of those too)
They do hold the gauge offset but the rotation is the same so it does not matter.
What do you sell that index bracket for by itself Yoshi?
Also added a pic of my tube hangers that hook over the rafters. Its a semi-tool I guess but it keeps the tube out of the way till needed.
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What do you sell that index bracket for by itself Yoshi?
I dunno, never thought about it. The one in the pic was a quickie, i'd prob. build a better one if I sold them...
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Hey Yoshi were do you get those bits from that's in ya mill up the top there, that you're using to notch the pipe with? I've looked every where here in OZ and hey suprize suprize I can't find one!
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Hey Yoshi were do you get those bits from that's in ya mill up the top there, that you're using to notch the pipe with? I've looked every where here in OZ and hey suprize suprize I can't find one!
Here's the store to find your nearest location.....(should be able to order off the net if not close though, lol)
http://www.wttool.com/info-exec/view/store_locations/ (http://www.wttool.com/info-exec/view/store_locations/)
Here's the bit I have always used for 1-1/4 TUBE, not PIPE, lol)...
http://www.wttool.com/product-exec/product_id/31446/nm/M_57_Roughing_End_Mills (http://www.wttool.com/product-exec/product_id/31446/nm/M_57_Roughing_End_Mills)
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when i decided to start my buggy, i built my bender first. it's a gottrikes bender with a 1.315 OD x 5.5 dia pro-tools die (what badland suggested), it works great. with a digital torpedo level and a bit of practice i was making bends accurate to a couple on tenths.
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Hey Yoshi were do you get those bits from that's in ya mill up the top there, that you're using to notch the pipe with? I've looked every where here in OZ and hey suprize suprize I can't find one!
www.enco.com (http://www.enco.com)
how far are you fromm bazz, i am getting ready to ship him a small package, could include one maybe, I have a good used 1.25 one...
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Sorry to jump in Bug but laughing as I type here... poor old Baz and Reidy are as far apart as it is possible to get in this country (give or take a few kms) you picked the best possible pair of guys to ask that question of... ;D ;D
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Sorry to jump in Bug but laughing as I type here... poor old Baz and Reidy are as far apart as it is possible to get in this country (give or take a few kms) you picked the best possible pair of guys to ask that question of... ;D ;D
3: maybe bazz would drop it in the mail for me once there... ;D
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Yeah thanks very much I would appreciate it! Not sure where Baz is but I'd be more than happy to pay for postage! If that's Ok with Baz? I'm in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney so if Baz could find out how much postage is I'll fix him up!!