- Joined
- Nov 7, 2019
- Messages
- 485
Felt like doing one of those "shoot from the hip" projects so I started a die holder from scraps.
Always great fun machining stuff when most dimensions aren't critical, something therapeutic about seeing those chips fly.
I didn't get it perfectly concentric because I was sloppy when I re-chucked the part, hopefully it'll still work otherwise I'll have to sleeve it.
Started out with an aluminium blank that I roughed out on the lathe then milled the hex to fit the die.
Way prematurely I also knurled the piece.
I then heat-shrunk a steel part into the aluminium, the steel will act as a bushing against the linear rod I'll have in the tailstock.
And the final result looks something like this and weighs a ton.
I also bored out the steel backpart a bit to get some extra depth when making threads, you can see the color differences between the materials.
Overall I'm very pleased but the wobble it has kinda annoys me.
Always great fun machining stuff when most dimensions aren't critical, something therapeutic about seeing those chips fly.
I didn't get it perfectly concentric because I was sloppy when I re-chucked the part, hopefully it'll still work otherwise I'll have to sleeve it.
Started out with an aluminium blank that I roughed out on the lathe then milled the hex to fit the die.
Way prematurely I also knurled the piece.
I then heat-shrunk a steel part into the aluminium, the steel will act as a bushing against the linear rod I'll have in the tailstock.
And the final result looks something like this and weighs a ton.
I also bored out the steel backpart a bit to get some extra depth when making threads, you can see the color differences between the materials.
Overall I'm very pleased but the wobble it has kinda annoys me.