Elcheapo Tapping Stand

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websterz:
What is it you chaps say across the pond...looks like it "works a treat"? Anyway...darn fine looking rig! :bow:

I have a piece of 8" diameter 303 stainless round about 3 inches thick (no, no typos there!) that I got on my former job. I faced it off on both sides before I brought it home thinking it would make a nice makeshift surface plate. That sucker weighs every bit of 50 pounds!! I have a plate now and was looking for a project to use it. I am going to build a tapping stand. As luck would have it I have a nice 3/8" Jacobs chuck I am not using at the moment and a new batch of 1/2" drill rod just came in today. You guys are running me ragged trying to keep up. I haven't had this much fun in I can't remember when!!

:proj:

bogstandard:
W,

Unlike tooling you see on other sites, the ones being made on here are tools that are regularly used, and usually within the capabilities of most to make. There are a few tools that I just couldn't live without, and one is my tapping stand.

Not only is it giving more accurately tapped holes, but the cost of making is recouped in no time due to less or no tap breakages.

This one should be the top of your list.

Bogs

Darren:
Well said John,

I'm making what I feel I need, not purely to show off to be stuck away in the drawer for ever and a day..... :dremel:

mzt:
Stew,

that knurled collar close to the chuck is the solution to a coupla problems with my tapping stand.
Thank You

Marcello

Topos:
A most wonderful construction, presentation, and inspirational topic.

Congratulations.

Because of this I am going to make my own.
When I graduated college in 1959 the machinists in the college
shop I had worked in when not studying ... could earn the tuition of
$350.00 per semester :) ... gave me a present that I have cherished
for over 53 years: a 6" diameter x 6" rod of brass.

As the crusty old magnificent B@$%@%&s said when they presented it to me:
"Good thing you got your degree, you were useless here, so here is a plaque to
remember us by ... and you can use it to weight lift" ... and they burst out laughing,
hurling at me as I departed the famous Middle English, contortionist advocacy, expression so freely used in every situation, context,
dropped tool, missing part, etc. situation in the machine shop.

I shall finally put it to good use as my base for a tapping stand, still remembering and honoring them after
lo these many years that have passed.

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