Show Us Your Shop Made Tooling!

[markknx]

Radius cutter and a 5/8 transfer punch.

 

[ddickey]

Made a small tap wrench. Copied Mr. Pete pretty much. Will come in handy though for the small taps.

 

[markknx]

Made a small tap wrench. Copied Mr. Pete pretty much. Will come in handy though for the small taps.

how is the clamping jaw attached to the screw?

 

[ddickey]

Mr. Pete drilled and reamed the bore and loctited a small turned down piece in the end of the screw. I didn't see a reason for that so just turned down the end of the screw a bit.

 

[BGHansen]

Here’s a ball peen hammer I made with help from my dad when I was 10 or 11 years old. He was a machine shop teacher who spent a lot of time after school and on weekends making instructional aids for the classes. I got to tag along once in a while.

Nice back story for me is the lathe the hammer was made on. My dad originally set up the shop at Waverly High School in Lansing, MI in 1962/63. He went to the Kalamazoo, MI Clausing plant on a shopping trip for the initial set up of the shop. One of the lathes he bought for the school was a Clausing 5418. Pretty much no frills lathe as far as Clausing’s go: no clutch, no L00 spindle (cheaper 2 ¼” x 8), manual speed changes with a step pulley on the motor and jack shaft.

Waverly High School shut down their shop in 1987 and auctioned off their shop equipment. I bid on and won that same lathe which now proudly sets in my shop. Still use the ball peen hammer and lathe; our son knows the story and considers the Clausing his birth rite.

Bruce

 

[hman]

I especially like the caption on your first photo - "Got a kick out of my dad's face when he saw it in my shop for the first time"

 

[chp]

Re: Shop made tooling

I needed a way to cut a key-way in a pulley that I had made for my mill.
I dug through my scrap pile and this what I ended up with.
I machined the body out and bored the hole slightly undersized.
Once I got it mounted on the compound I centred it as best I could then
I mounted a boring bar in the chuck and and finished the bore to size as best I could, then
made up the bushings and pressed them in.The rest was pretty straight forward.

Terry

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I love this tool, do you have plans or measurements that you would share

 

[hdskip]

pictures of a largish leather punch and a small chasing hammer for engraving.

 

[shootur44]

I love this tool, do you have plans or measurements that you would share

Great job , would you share the plans or drawing to the project ? I am a newbie and can't just look at and make I still need drawings and measurements. Please help if possible !
Mike ( shootur44)


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[Buffalobull]

Here is my version of a popular tool lots of guys make. Retracting threading tool. It works fantastic and is rock solid when in use.