Tube holder

[EST]

Just thought I'll share a tube holder I made today. Had some spare 5 mm metal sheet so I cut out some plates and welded them.
Should work fine with a hole saw and I have all the adjustment I need takes up to around 35 40 mm tubing

 

[jwmelvin]

I’ve been wanting to figure out an approach to tube notching for quite some time. This seems quite good. Thanks for the ideas.

 

[Mitch Alsup]

You know you are using the lathe as a mill. It might get confused with the gender identity after a while.

 

[brino]

Great Idea!

I could see using this for a pipe-jaw add-on for my bench vise, perhaps welded onto the back fo a piece of angle iron.

Thanks for sharing this.
-brino

 

[MrWhoopee]

Damn! I just bought a tube notcher. The job was done by the time it arrived. It was brutal! It never even occurred to me to try it in the lathe.

 

[EST]

Hehe well I had this one before that I also made. Worked good but hard to set up good and could only but in center.