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Making Simple QC Tool Holders

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RussellT:
That's good progress.   :clap:  I like your organised approach.

I like the tab on the bottom of the post - there'll be no need for a big wrench.  Are you still going to incorporate a flange?

Russell

vtsteam:
85vette, thanks!

RussellT, thanks ......and definitely will add a skirt to the post.

awemawson, afraid the swarf just went into the dustbin. Wish there was a use for it!

You don't lose so much, and drilling and boring go a lot easier with cored out castings. Below is a pic of a few of the patterns and aluminum holders I made five years ago for the Gingery lathe. The hole has draft just like the rest of the pattern and I bored the wooden patterns on the lathe with the compound slide.  The thicker holder suits a cutoff tool.

I hope to cast iron with my new furnace when the weather finally cooperates.

vtsteam:



Weird.

I finished up boring the last of the toolholders for the center post today. Then got ready to drill the clamp bolt hole. I marked all the block corners for the new face. Then I pulled all of the jaws out of the chuck and reversed them. Then I placed a block into the chuck and roughly located it to the area that would need to be drilled. That was off center a lot for this particular drill location and I changed the drive belt down a couple pulleys because the balance would be off a fair amount.

Then I marked up the piece in the chuck, scribed cross lines and popped it with the center punch. A put the dead center in the tailstock, moved it in from the other end of the lathe (3 foot bed) where it had been, out of the way while boring with the carriage. I was expecting to have to adjust all 4 jaws back and forth for a few minutes to line things up. I don't have a second chuck key....yet.

I slid the tailstock close and tightened it down on the ways. Then wound the center in toward the block.

Wow, I thought. Pretty close.

Still winding in.....

Wow, really close

Winding in.......

Holy cra............!!!!!!

Wound in.

Are you kidding me?????? What the...?

The center was dead on to the center pop. I mean absolutely dead on! Take a look. What are the chances of that -- with an off center location, not even marked before being placed in the jaws?? I could wind it in all the way and it just touched right on - - not the slightest side movement. Perfect alignment. Unbelievable!

Davo J:
Thats really really lucky, LOL
For this type of work a pump center or spring center works great, put it on you to do list as it will be a handy accessory for off set things in the lathe for future projects.

Dave

vtsteam:
Will do, Dave.

There are a couple other things I need to make before I can really finish off this project properly:

A knurling tool (I have knurls but not a holder), and a Morse taper adapter for the headstock -- it's #3, and all my useful tooling for it is #2. I don't have a collet chuck.

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