Hemingway kits?

[Yester5]

In my experience, their kits are great. The shipping form UK to Pittsburgh PA was a bit high but worth it to me, as a self-taught newbie
I've built the Cross Drilling Jig and I'm just starting the Versatile Dividing Head.
I've shown here the Cross Drilling Jig after completion...

 

[Yester5]

Tom's design is probably one of the best designs I have ever seen. I see a few limits to it that others get around but it seems to me that it is the most rigid design. I have seen Tom's videos in the past but for some reason never saw the knurler series of vids.

Building Tom's knurler was one of the first projects I attempted when I first started teaching myself machining. His plans and series of YouTube videos are excellent. It works great, even on my small 8 x 20 lathe

 

[9t8z28]

In my experience, their kits are great. The shipping form UK to Pittsburgh PA was a bit high but worth it to me, as a self-taught newbie
I've built the Cross Drilling Jig and I'm just starting the Versatile Dividing Head.
I've shown here the Cross Drilling Jig after completion...

I was just looking at the cross-drilling jig a few days ago and for the life of me I cannot figure out how it works. Anyone have any vids on someone using it in action?

 

[Yester5]

I was just looking at the cross-drilling jig a few days ago and for the life of me I cannot figure out how it works. Anyone have any vids on someone using it in action?

YouTube might...these are photos taken from Harold Hall’s web site. You see, the kit is made primarily to be used on your lathe. It attaches to your tool post stud and on my lathe, I had to shim it up a bit to get it on center to my lathe spindle bore. Then, with a end mill mounted in your chuck, you cut out the stepped “V” notch that holds your stock that needs drilled on-center. The clamps hold your round stock and on the clamp, you fabricate different size bushings that guide your drill bits. It can also be mounted in a mill vise or drill press to drill round stock. These pics are from Harolds web site...

 

[Yester5]

Here is a video of me fabricating my kit. I’m cutting the “V” notch steps. Once you cut the “V” on your lathe, any round stock that you clamp in the jig is always on-center with your spindle

 

[pdentrem]

I bought the retracting tool holder http://www.hemingwaykits.com/acatalog/Retracting_Tool_Holder.html I built It in a couple weekends.
Pierre

 

[9t8z28]

Here is a video of me fabricating my kit. I’m cutting the “V” notch steps. Once you cut the “V” on your lathe, any round stock that you clamp in the jig is always on-center with your spindle

Thanks for explaining in detail. Looks like a good kit. Is that an SC4 lathe your working on?

 

[9t8z28]

I bought the retracting tool holder http://www.hemingwaykits.com/acatalog/Retracting_Tool_Holder.html I built It in a couple weekends.
Pierre

This is another want of mine. How rigid is the tool when locked forward to take a cut? Can you modify the tool to use a larger blank, maybe 3/8" or 1/2" ?

 

[Yester5]

Thanks for explaining in detail. Looks like a good kit. Is that an SC4 lathe your working on?

My lathe is from Little Machine Shop. It’s their 8 x 20 model


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[pdentrem]

This is another want of mine. How rigid is the tool when locked forward to take a cut? Can you modify the tool to use a larger blank, maybe 3/8" or 1/2" ?

Retracting tool holder

I purchased the Hemingway Tools kit for the Retracting Tool Holder. What you receive are excellent drawings plus the article originally done by the designer G. Thomas, and all the blank steel components as well as the screws, drill blanks for pins etc. Naturally the screws are British thread...

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I use it for threading. It is mounted on to a tool block for my QCTP so switching back and forth is easy.

You can go bigger with a little redesign of the main piece. It is designed for a 1/4” round tool and if I were to make it again, 2 things.
1 make it integral with a QCtool holder and
2 make the tool area a square recess for flexibility of 1/4 or 3/8” tools.
if wanting 1/2” tool this would require beefing up but once you see how it is made shouldn’t be a show stopper.
Pierre