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Gallery, Projects and General => Gallery => Topic started by: ksor on November 14, 2013, 04:04:35 PM
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Yeah, I needed one ... so I made one !
http://kelds.weebly.com/tap-follower.html (http://kelds.weebly.com/tap-follower.html)
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Looks good.
This is one of the first accessories I bought before
I figured out I could make what ever I needed.
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Oh one of those! I thought you made a bolt! :D
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Nice one. Any chance of parts inside?
Google tranlator offered finnish and I tried it. Hilarious. Even the english part. Can you guess which meaning it used for "spring". You guess it! Not the springgy one, but seasonal one. :lol:
Pekka
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Nice one. Any chance of parts inside?
Google tranlator offered finnish and I tried it. Hilarious. Even the english part. Can you guess which meaning it used for "spring". You guess it! Not the springgy one, but seasonal one. :lol:
Pekka
:Doh: Yeah, Google Translate is NOT what it was ... one can say, Google is NOT what it was - all this integration **** ... Gabriel, blow your horn !
Parts inside ... a spring (nothing to do with the seasons :loco:) and a "nail-like" tip - the head of the "nail" shall be bigger than the diameter of the spring - that's it !
I learned that nearly every tap - except the "small" ones - have en "center-drill" in the top end of the shaft - but unfortunately the "smaller" ones have a cone like a tip !
So, in fact the very "tip" should be reversible - something like this:
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As shown here, it's for the bigger taps with a "center drill" in the top.
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Here it's for the smaller taps with a cone in the top !
:bang: :bang: when you are a nuclehead - you just make a new one ... so, that's what I'm gonna do :doh:
I have maded a schetch in Schetch on my web site: http://kelds.weebly.com/tap-follower.html (http://kelds.weebly.com/tap-follower.html)
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Thank you. I got it.
I made one bit like that in stone age. But much more crude and ad-hoc. I just drilled and reamed hole at the nose of MT3 blanco and plonkked a spring and a centre made out of silver steel. It is rather long to reduce tendency of the centre to fall off. Hmmm.. thinkking of it maybe I should make another centre with a dimple.
Pekka
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Mine was even cruder - just a pointed rod in the Bridgeport chuck kept in place by downwards pressure on the quill feed arm, but now I tend to loosely grip in a chuck and start the tap by hand turning. (or power tap if the tap is stout enough)
Andrew
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I have a set of tap wrenches made by Eclipse, they grip the tap in a chuck, and have a center hole in the other to locate with a center.
Cheers David
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These are mine. I made the top two, one male one female as some small Taps have a point on the end. I bought the one at the bottom but had to remake the internals as it was such a poor fit! I think I made it reversible, one end male, one female.
(http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee286/Arbalist/9eb4600649187939fa9b402b0c52744e.jpg)
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Oh, really nice Work you have done ! :bow: :bow: :bow: :bow: