Hi All I am Bernard new to the forum am a machinist by trade.. always looking to build useful tools to help around the shop.Look forward to seeing what everyone is doing
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Hi All I am Bernard new to the forum am a machinist by trade.. always looking to build useful tools to help around the shop.Look forward to seeing what everyone is doing
Hi Bernard - welcome to HomemadeTools.net :welcome:
Any interesting builds on your plate right now?
am currently building ball turning tool for the shop lathe we have here consist of Boring bar Attachment 3307
just finished the basics of it now just need to get the right geometry of the cutting tool
Hi Bernard,
Welcome - glad to have you here! :welcome:
Looks as though you're well along on that ball turner. Can't wait to see the finished product!
What sort of lathe are you using there?
Ken
Hi Bernard, welcome to the forums! :)
Ken its a little Victor lathe
he is a quick tour of the shop I work at .. My current job at a plastic extrusion company has me basically standing by in case something breaks then I can fix it which leaves me with free time to build stuff.. hence ball turning tool
here is quick tour of shop
Both CNC are set up with 4 Axis
Hardinge lathe just took a crap a week ago not sure what wrong with it ... something is the axis drive is alarming
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Nice setup/toy shop!
What else have you built while standing by? Remember the Maytag repairman, or am I dating myself? :lol:
Ken
i'm always building something Good thing about my job is I can build everything in Solidworks before I actually make it ..
made these for each of the manual lathe
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also built this for the Bridgeport makes tool changing so much nicer need to build 2 more for the other machines in the shop
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I am sure there are more everyday things I will take pictures and post as I come across them
Cool! Would you have a video of that in action?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cruizer67
DIYer I can get that tomorrow and post it
https://youtu.be/5gAGIcJh5ig
I will create a new post of the changer in the correct forum along with prints to build your own :)
Thanks for the link. If you'd like, I could embed the video so it'll play right in your post.
Ken
Hi Bernard,
Welcome and I will be following your postings on Homemadetools. Take lot of photos so we can see how the tools are assembled and finished.
Thank you,
Paul
Thank you Paul I will start to document what I do and post it as often as work allows. I hope to be able to add the the extensive list of homemade tools
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Originally Posted by Cruizer67
Cool! Looking forward to that detailed post! :thumbsup:
