Home holder for a hand-held hole punch.

Due to all of the hole punching we were doing (my hands were aching Saturday night after all of the holes I punched) we designed and built a little fixture to bolt my hand held hole puncher into. This clamps to the grinding table or the jig tables and sure does make 18ga. an easy job...
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It's just some scrap 1/4" angle and plate and a 4 x 4 drop. The verticle plate under the handle keeps the punch from rotating.
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Set on the base
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I can only post 4 pics so see the next reply for continuation.

Welded up and primed with the Eastwood self-etching primer.
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I sprayed the base with some of my "signature" Hammered Black from Rustoleum.
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The handle is a left-over chunk of 1 1/4 tube (with a bend on it). I painted it red (for effect).
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All set up and ready to go! This makes punching holes FUN!
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Clever! Thanks for posting; I don't think we have anything like this listed yet. Added this to our Metalworking category. Also, here is your homemade tool page: astroracer's homemade tools. Let me know if we've missed any. Your receipt:

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Thanks Jon!
I have a few more things I've made that I will post up.

Most excellent, I have the same hole punch, I remember reading somewhere a guy was making and selling these but now that I've seen your version I will probably work from that, as yet I've just clamped it in the bench vise when not using it freehand, great job.