| Gallery, Projects and General > Project Logs |
| Mogas makes something. |
| (1/3) > >> |
| Mogas:
Hello Mad Modders! I have learned a lot from this forum and thought I would contribute something! Sorry if it is old hat to you chaps but I thought it may be of use to another newbie like myself. Up until recently I have been using ordinary tool steel and grinding various tips as required for the jobs to be done on my lathe. I decided to step it up a notch and go carbide. Shopping around I soon found out that the tips and tool holders are rather pricey. A bit of surfing cyber space uncovered this: http://bedair.org/Carbide/tool.html My thanks to Steve Bedair whom I have never met or spoken to for the idea. So I decided to have a go at making my own set of tool holders. Machine: A 3in1 of Chinese origin with a decent collet holder, chuck and some end mills, 4 and 14mm. A 120mm rotary table. Materials: A scrap length of 16mm square bar, ordinary mild steel I think, milled down to 12 x 16mm in order to fit into my toolpost. A few M3 countersunk machine screws. The all important carbide tips, this type can be rotated and flipped over a total of 6 times each so should see me through to retirement before they are completely worn out! The process was documented with photos, sorry, some were taken at night and are a little dark. Here goes. |
| Mogas:
After milling the 16mm stock down to 12mm, blue and trace out the carbide tip. |
| Mogas:
I carefully leveled the work piece (I know the bubble is not centered, but it corresponds to the level of the bed!) Note to self: I must level my bench some time :offtopic: |
| Mogas:
The fun part! Mill, rotate mill some more. These were taken at night so apologies for the picture quality. |
| Mogas:
Another one. |
| Navigation |
| Message Index |
| Next page |